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Holy crap, that list of data breaches is incredible. And by incredible, I mean really difficult to believe. If anything should be #1 on hacker news for an entir

Holy crap, that list of data breaches is incredible. And by incredible, I mean really difficult to believe. If anything should be #1 on hacker news for an entire month it should be that page right there.

KGIII 9y ago
What is remarkable, and it pains me to say this, is that Microsoft isn't on that list. With all the telemetry data they collect, they might have some good data stored. I'm sure people are trying to hack it, even right this minute. They seem pretty capable, so far, of keeping their own collected data secured.
- tluyben2 9y ago
  Some of these breaches, for instance the Gmail/Google breach, might have not been a breach of there systems at all. So far for that example (but there are more), one could apply that to Outlook/MS and get identical results. Aka; hack some service that has millions of emails/password (accumulated), filter all gmail emails, try to login to gmail with that compbi and if it works, put them into the list of 'hacked gmail accounts'. Not trying to stick up for Google here, but, like MS, there seems to not be a real breach there.
bogomipz 9y ago
And that entry is missing a bunch as well. Specifically It doesn't list the most recent T mobile breach. This breach was notable in that it was called a T Mobile Breach but the data was stoled from Experian's servers. T Mobile pointed the finger at Experian and Experian said they were just storing the data at T-Mobile's request. This breach affected 15 million people. The asshole's at T Mobile as well as Experian offered one years of free credit monitoring from Experian as a resolution. In order to elect to participate in the offer you were required to enter your social security number into a sketchy looking web page. See: https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/t-mobile-breach/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/t-mobile-breach/

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Holy crap, that list of data breaches is incredible. And by incredible, I mean really difficult to believe. If anything should be #1 on hacker news for an entir

by jv22222 9y ago

KGIII 9y ago
What is remarkable, and it pains me to say this, is that Microsoft isn't on that list. With all the telemetry data they collect, they might have some good data stored. I'm sure people are trying to hack it, even right this minute. They seem pretty capable, so far, of keeping their own collected data secured.
- tluyben2 9y ago
  Some of these breaches, for instance the Gmail/Google breach, might have not been a breach of there systems at all. So far for that example (but there are more), one could apply that to Outlook/MS and get identical results. Aka; hack some service that has millions of emails/password (accumulated), filter all gmail emails, try to login to gmail with that compbi and if it works, put them into the list of 'hacked gmail accounts'. Not trying to stick up for Google here, but, like MS, there seems to not be a real breach there.
bogomipz 9y ago
And that entry is missing a bunch as well. Specifically It doesn't list the most recent T mobile breach. This breach was notable in that it was called a T Mobile Breach but the data was stoled from Experian's servers. T Mobile pointed the finger at Experian and Experian said they were just storing the data at T-Mobile's request. This breach affected 15 million people. The asshole's at T Mobile as well as Experian offered one years of free credit monitoring from Experian as a resolution. In order to elect to participate in the offer you were required to enter your social security number into a sketchy looking web page. See: https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/t-mobile-breach/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/t-mobile-breach/