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This comment, excerpted from a story on my site about the AT&T breach really had me, until it devolved into a sales pitch. Anyway, we are all digital wildebeest.

"This hack is sad. I was a victim of the Ticketmaster hack in April. I received two follow up emails from Ticketmaster advising me on what to do and how to protect myself. Same old Blah, Blah, Blah. Nobody seems capable of stopping these hacks. We are like wildebeest in a nature documentary. The lions chase us, catch one of us and while the lions eat our fallen mate, we stand and think "Well, they just got Charlie, I hope they don't get me tomorrow."

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samiamsam
samiamsam
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i've never had ATT mobile, but i did have dishnetwork many years ago

i got an email so that means any ATT systems were hacked

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Defederate Threads!
Defederate Threads!
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IT is dominated by a consumer herd mentality now, so that makes sense.
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init6
init6
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I think I have like 4 breaches and letters of "free credit monitoring" for 1 year active right now. My credit can only be monitored so hard bros.
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Renée Burton
Renée Burton
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this all reminds me of Who Killed Davey Moore? Not to defend the hacked companies, or the hackers, but there are a number of players who could make these attacks harder... And generally don't. There is a good chance a domain name is used in any attack, but registries, registrars, and hosting providers are not incentivized to proactively or even reactively shut things down. Some do, most don't in my experience. If these events were about the every day theft from consumers, it's even worse. who stole your identity? Not I says everyone.
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Eric Schwarz :yikes:
Eric Schwarz :yikes:
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I’ve been monitoring this for family members and the tough part is between this and the last breach, I’d suggest they move away from AT&T to “vote with their wallets” but what are the other options? T-Mobile seems to have breaches like clockwork and Verizon could (along with being more expensive and badly congested in their areas). I think this AT&T breach also shows that while MVNOs can help with less info on file, network-level activity is still up for grabs…
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grokspawn
grokspawn
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sadly, nothing will change until there are privacy laws with teeth enough to chasten even big companies, instead of just incrementally adding to the “cost of doing business”.
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Jared Rimer
Jared Rimer
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Brian, I wonder why we can't do anything to stop these breaches. For a time before I started TSB specificly, my podcast the technology podcast stopped production as all I was seeing was breaches. Seems as though people haven't learned anything, they just click and do. One of my guys got either an email or SMS to email asking them to respond to a telephone number; working 60-90 minutes a day, and getting paid anywhere from $50-$500 a day. People fall for this crap, and nobody learns not to respond to this. A vicious cycle. If you don't click files, suspicious links, texting random phone numbers, and the like, this would all not be this way IMHO?
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