Privacy News Your Personal Data on Insecure 3rd-Party Systems

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/altima-telecom-server-flaw-customer-data-exposed/

This article discusses generally how your data will be compromised... which is via insecure 3rd-party systems:

Website flaw exposed a Canadian ISP’s entire customer database

From grocery store to bank to doctor's office to insurance company to ISP to your favorite website, and everything in-between. If your data is out there on a digital system, then it is just a matter of time before it is compromised.

 

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New York cable provider RCN recently admitted to storing customer passwords in plaintext.

2018 and the company still thought plaintext is safe. Not surprising to say the least as i am sure there are many others still doing the same thing.