A one hopefully positive thing that comes out of this is the obsolescence of the use of personal information for purchases. I don't know when exactly it was tho

A one hopefully positive thing that comes out of this is the obsolescence of the use of personal information for purchases. I don't know when exactly it was thought that knowing someone's name, address and social security number was enough to make hundreds or thousands worth of credit loans or purchases, but it has to end. Now what you have to do is register at multiple services a block of using your PII for credit loans, company memberships, paper-sent address change etc. It's outrageous how much effort you to have to go through after becoming a victim of a crime, and for at least credit block you have to pay with your own money. Some Finnish MP in Twitter had some good points how to modernize the current system and I dearly wish they would put that on their agenda ASAP. When those 40k names with full addresses, phone numbers, SSNs etc, start getting spread around, it's going to be a hell of a shitshow. Well not that it isn't already. The hacker also accidentally uploaded the whole database for a brief moment, which from my knowledge was downloaded by at least one person, containing most if not all of the mental health records data.