Thread

1. whynotmaybe · 1790110926 · focus · HN ↗

   > data totalled between two and three terabytes.

   That's lot of data for a list of employees.

   1. AraneaDev · 1790111566 · focus · HN ↗

      I was gonna say. What else did they get, whole dossiers with photos etc?

      1. Tangurena2 · 1790114010 · focus · HN ↗

         The 2015 OPM hack got every application for a security clearance. Which includes every place you lived for the past 15 years with names and phone numbers of people who knew you there. I expect the FBI data includes similar stuff. And because the FBI deals with financial crimes, I expect the data also includes bank account statements/transactions.

         We as a country need to start treating PII as radioactive - that touching it or keeping it anywhere near your computer network is a company-ending disaster about to happen. The legal standard needs to be strict liability like CSAM or DUI.

         1. asdff · 1790114847 · focus · HN ↗

            >that touching it or keeping it anywhere near your computer network is a company-ending disaster about to happen.

            Well, that would require such leaks to result in a company ending disaster. Instead they keep chugging as normal and the customers who got their information leaked don't even move off the platform for greener pastures. What a boring dystopia we live in.

            1. Terr_ · 1790117000 · focus · HN ↗

               That has actually become part of my philosophy for predicting the future: We're all biased towards things which fit a dramatic story or movie, which puts an unrealistic floor on things like meaninglessness, chaos, stupidity, or boredom.

               So to a certain extent, any prediction which gets people excited and captures their imagination is already off.

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.