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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsone thirds of americans could have had their data breached due to corporate negligence
Last edited Thu May 2, 2024, 08:36 AM - Edit history (1)
The portal that the bad actors initially accessed was not protected by multifactor authentication, or MFA, which requires users to verify their identities in at least two different ways
once again a companies shitty practices resulted in people having their data stolen.
the company need to do more than just provide "credit monitoring". its time companies started paying a serious price for this.
Start with $1000 per person affected. as a minimum. and possible jail terms for the top executives.
then see how fast companies start taking data protection seriously. (last year united healthcare had revenue of over 300 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/unitedhealth-ceo-one-third-of-americans-could-be-impacted-by-change-healthcare-cyberattack.html
Whiskeytide
(4,466 posts)moonshinegnomie
(2,524 posts)but it didnt paste it. fixed now
ThreeNoSeep
(88 posts)That seems optimistic at best.
Stargazer99
(2,603 posts)Our societal god must not be disturbed by safety! I think this poster has a damn good idea-make it more expensive if business doesn't protect its clients
XanaDUer2
(10,977 posts)I've done everyone to protect my information and it was pointless. I called Morgan and Morgan to complain but i think nothing will come of that. I have 2 monitoring services.
ck4829
(35,110 posts)They have proven time and time again they are not trustworthy with our data
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,287 posts)ck4829
(35,110 posts)Last edited Fri May 3, 2024, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)
It's time to get our data out of healthcare.
Oneironaut
(5,559 posts)If you have data online, someone likely has some of it.
Imagine all the data breaches you DONT hear about. Yeah
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