Wealthy interests built the system, but they're not the only abusive actors within it. It would not surprise if smaller firms completely failed to protect the d

Wealthy interests built the system, but they're not the only abusive actors within it. It would not surprise if smaller firms completely failed to protect the data of other parties more often than larger firms did so. The best way for database operators to prevent unauthorized access and deletion is to secure their databases in some way. The best way for anyone else to prevent abusive access is to delete unsecured databases. Working together, this problem will be solved eventually.