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I wonder about the extent to which the seemingly endless supply of breaches has translated into an increase in identity theft (or any other negative consequence

I wonder about the extent to which the seemingly endless supply of breaches has translated into an increase in identity theft (or any other negative consequences that I haven't thought of)

ziddoap 7y ago
I think a bigger use-case for these breaches is credential stuffing and more elaborate phishing rather than old fashioned identity theft - but I'm honestly just guessing and have no data to point to.
- wolco 7y ago
  You don't need phishing if they have the credit card numbers and name/address information.
  - ziddoap 7y ago
    If the credit card number is the end goal, sure. However, there are many other goals of phishing: Pivoting through another person/company to reach another target, IP theft, espionage, corporate sabotage, impersonation, etc.
mlb_hn 7y ago
I'm more concerned about the propaganda issue. I argued a couple years ago (heavily edited) when I left the Army that foreign actors (read: Russia) were data mining stolen data for fracture lines to amplify [0] which makes it hard to form a comprehensive list of politically relevant topics. [0] https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2017/November/Data-Driven-Propaganda/ https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archive...
- AmericanChopper 7y ago
  Partisan politics really gets in the way of that point. Both sides of the aisle have been pointing to the other side saying “Russia” or “China” for the past few years, so admitting civil division is their primary objective would almost be admitting complicity.