Holy shit, I never expected to see the company I worked for (as Apple support) in the news, you go Conduent! But honestly, yeah, the amount of personal data we used to deal with was absurd, and the security was almost non-existent. The only account that was prohibited to even look up was Tim Cook’s one. You could be easily fired for that.
Basically, we could see the whole purchase history of any account, bank info, address, phone numbers, etc. and we used to tell the customers crap like “oh, no, I don’t see anything, we cannot identify payments or block/unblock your iphone”, even though we could easily do all that and way more in a few clicks.
Anyway, my NDA is over now, so I guess it’s fine for me to share all this.
Companies you’ve never heard of, holding your critical data for reasons that aren’t clear, despite the causal connection to health insurance.
Can we just for the love of fucking god or whatever get universal healthcare?
Best we can do is raise prices again and require you to have it
causal
casual?
Sorry, that would mean the rich would get richer slightly slower. Best we can do is make insurance twice as expensive to appease our donors.
*investors
*bribe makers
That’s crazy that I’ve had a dozen of these “largest breaches in history” in my lifetime.
You must be a decade or two younger than I am.
This is not intended as an excuse for corporate laziness by any means, but: For most of my lifetime, data breaches had to be carried out by on-site and by hand. The advent of computers, and then the internet, made this crap a lot easier. So, y’know, it’s a pretty short timeline relative to a human lifespan to be having data breaches in the first place.
Unless you are well over 80 years old, that is patently not true. Computer data breaches started happening in the intelligence sector in the late '50s to early '60s. They weren’t reported on. Corporate data breaches started happening in the mid '70s to early '80s. Again not widely reported on because that was mostly corporate espionage. The first major data breach that was reported on that I remember was the attack on the Dow Jones that happened in 1988 or 1989.
Data breaches have included everything from floppy disks to tape drives. Not just emails and USB jump drives.
I said
For most of my lifetime, date breaches had to be carried out on-site and by hand.
Explain how that means only “emails and USB jump drives”. That might be hard, because it doesn’t.
As well, you might be thinking of the Black Monday stock market crash, because I don’t remember any high-profile hack to exfiltrate data from the Dow Jones. Amongst the only early remote data breaches I am aware of is the German guys who got into the DoD’s network and sold the data to the KGB, in the mid-80s, because it was only the military and some universities who had the internet back then.
Remote data breaches have only really been a thing since the 2000s, because like I said, computers were less common and the internet was almost non-existent before that point. The spread of both computers and the internet made it a lot easier. If you’re having trouble with the maths, that means I don’t in fact have to be “well over 80 years old”.
Remote. That is the key word you left out. That word makes what you said make a lot more sense. There were a ton of data breaches that weren’t remote before Arpanet.
Explain just what the hell you think “on-site and by hand” means, please.
It’s the largest breach in US history so far
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At least 26 million people have had their personal data stolen from Conduent, a company that provides printing, payment, and document processing services for some of the largest health insurance providers in the country [meaning U.S.A., again]. …etc…
Just got my letter in the mail from Conduent today. FML. I might as well just post this shit on Facebook at this point.
