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Might get some real action on Equifax; knowing congressional folks are loaded into the same boat....
.....as the "wee" folks and perhaps sailing into the same storm. Nothing like a little motivation, eh? What about that Consumer Protection Agency that some in D.C. want to kill? Might be the job for this agency.
"Cybersecurity experts believe the breach is one of the largest data hacks ever disclosed."
Therein lies part of the problem. Lots of motivation to keep these problems hidden, and little in the way of US laws to compel disclosure. What laws do exist are a patchwork of various state laws. Who knows how many other hacks have not been disclosed?
Data breaches occur all the time. Often simply from lack of physical security. (One incident that sticks in my mind was a couple of decades ago, when a computer with credit card info was stolen from a transit agency through an open window.)
Big or small, the responsibility to take care should be the same.
I do not want to take this discussion off Mark's topic but too bad we can't get those same congressional folks on the same sinking healthcare/health insurance plan boat as well.
@Old_Joe Next batch? You mean after the current one dies off one by one? Right now, "next batch" representatives tend to be of the type that would want to solve the problem by making sure most workers are so poor their data isn't worth hacking. You gotta admit - it's a solution.
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U.S. Senator and others in below link......now that other feet are also in the fire pit.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/13/us-senator-on-equifax-hack-somebody-needs-to-go-to-jail.html
Therein lies part of the problem. Lots of motivation to keep these problems hidden, and little in the way of US laws to compel disclosure. What laws do exist are a patchwork of various state laws. Who knows how many other hacks have not been disclosed?
Data breaches occur all the time. Often simply from lack of physical security. (One incident that sticks in my mind was a couple of decades ago, when a computer with credit card info was stolen from a transit agency through an open window.)
Big or small, the responsibility to take care should be the same.
The 16 biggest data breaches of the 21st century