Today’s links The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (permalink) In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst data-breach in world history, leaking the deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans and 15m Britons, (and 19k Canadians) into the world, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir of kompromat and premade identity-theft kits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach Equifax knew the breach was coming. It wasn’t just that their top execs liquidated their stock in Equifax before the announcement of the breach – it was also that they ignored years of increasingly urgent warnings from IT staff about the problems with their server security. Things didn’t improve after the breach. Indeed, the 2017 Equifax breach was the starting gun for a string of more breaches, because Equifax’s servers didn’t just have one fubared system – it was composed of pure, refined fubar. After one group of hackers breached the main Equifax system, other groups breached other Equifax systems, over and over, and over: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html Doesn’t this remind you of Boeing? It…Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)