Despite Decades of Hacking Attacks, Companies Leave Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data Unprotected

Posted on AllSides January 25th, 2022
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Cath Virginia, special to ProPublica
ANALYSIS

Consider some of the episodes last year in which large quantities of personal data were stolen: 300 million customer and device records for users of a service that’s supposed to shield internet traffic from prying eyes; a 17.6-million-row database from a second organization, containing profiles of people who participated in its market research surveys; 59 million email addresses and other personal data lifted from a third company. These sorts of numbers barely raise an eyebrow these days; none of the incidents generated major press coverage.

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