Farmers Insurance data breach affects 1.1M people

dizlexic a day ago | parent [-]

Am I the only one whose been so desensitized to these that (outside of the breach vector) they barely register anymore?

Is there any company that actually protects the data that they mandate we give them?

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Citizen8396 a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Is there any company that actually protects the data that they mandate we give them?

not really, no. it was "within their risk appetite"

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SpicyUme a day ago | parent | next [-]

But I was told "Data is the new oil', I guess that includes minimal penalties for spills.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> minimal penalties for spills BP et al paid “the largest environmental damage settlement in United States history – $20.8 billion – on April 4, 2016” [1]. The damage from oil spills can be clearly quantified and directly attributed. We don’t have that evidence of harms from such breaches. [1] https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-...

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3eb7988a1663 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is extra funny because Farmers has buildings of actuaries who could produce excellent estimates as to the risk and expense.

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foxyv 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

After a background check leaked my entire background and fingerprints, I think there is almost nothing left to leak. It's just, all out there now. Freeze your credit folks.