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Equifax Increases Number of Britons Affected By Data Breach To 700,000 (telegraph.co.uk)

phalse phace writes: You know those 400,000 Britons that were exposed in Equifax's data breach? Well, it turns out the number is actually closer to 700,000. The Telegraph reports: "Equifax has just admitted that almost double the number of UK customers had their information stolen in a major data breach earlier this year than it originally thought, and that millions more could have had their details compromised. The company originally estimated that the number of people affected in the UK was 'fewer than 400,000.' But on Tuesday night it emerged that cyber criminals had targeted 15.2 million records in the UK. It said 693,665 people could have had their data exposed, including email addresses, passwords, driving license numbers, phone numbers. The stolen data included partial credit card details of less than 15,000 customers."

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  1. Re:Financial CEOs by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The wealthy aren't affected by these breaches. They can simply hire other people to worry about that sort of bothersome thing on their behalf. Any sort of problem like "identity theft" is resolved with a simple phone call to their bank's manager, with whom they occasionally golf on the weekends.

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  2. Re: Please let one of them be Queen Elizabeth by mschwanke97402 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because Killary would have been so much better...

    Yes, Hillary would have been better without doubt.

  3. Re: Please let one of them be Queen Elizabeth by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    George W Bush sans two thirds of his brain would have been better. A lobotomized trout would have been better.

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  4. Re: Please let one of them be Queen Elizabeth by Maritz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Literally any fucking eligible human citizen would be better. Including Killary. Open a phone book and point. Better than Trump.

    You fell for Russian psyops, dopey cunt.

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