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Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web (www.macworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catculation to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tried to delete my shit from their website, but they make it impossible to do so. I tried for about 20 minutes then eventually the site straight up refused to let me continue. I don't even have AT&T anymore, I had their cellular back in 2013 and left them then, but the fuckers kept my info in their system this whole fucking time. No accountability for big corporations when they fuck up big like this. If it were one of us peasants, we would have been in prison for life.

[–] possiblylinux127 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the problem is there isn't any law protecting your data

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And that's a huge problem. Only form of protection I have is freezing my credit with the three credit reporting assholes. I know it's not much, but at least no one can apply for shit with my social.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It actually gives you quite a bit of protection. If you don't have a open credit they can't open cards in your name.

Just remember it is frozen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I do have 5 cards already, two cars and a mortgage. I just hope that whomever they call will ask for more info beside only the SSN. I have some companies nowadays like Amazon send me a text message for verification.