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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Staying Safe Online: Do We Need A New Form Of ID?
Description: Another day, another data breach–or so I thought.
But even though there have been a lot of other really big data breaches over the past few years; hearing about the one perpetrated recently by a hacker called USDoD, gave me pause.Â
As reported by Bloomberg Law; it is possible they stole the Social Security numbers of every American, along with other personally sensitive information from a total of nearly 3 billion people in the US, UK, and Canada. This occurred in December 2023, when they cracked the defenses of National Public Data, which is a data broker offering personal information to emplo...