Verizon Partner Exposes Data of Millions of Customers Who Called Customer Service [Updated]

[MrX8503]

Snapchat geocodes you.

I don't use Snapchat

FB geotags you.

I don't use FaceBook

Your phone tracks everywhere you go.

I believe Apple doesn't track it's users as much as Google, which is why I have an iPhone.

Even this forum has your IP address and could make a discernible guess as to your location.

I have a VPN set up at the router level

Take pictures? The EXIF data extracted from those would give every location of any picture you've ever taken and posted to Instagram, etc.

I don't use Instagram and any photos I post online, I strip the EXIF data.

And that's not even mentioning all of the rights we toss away whenever we click "I agree" to those lengthy TOS agreements that nobody ever reads.

True, which is why I make an effort to deal with companies I trust. I've shed nearly all of my Google apps over the years.

Or to say anything of the Patriot Act and the loss of those civil liberties.People shouldn't get scared by this Verizon leak - that moment passed about 15 years ago.

Basically you've become desensitized and have accepted the lack of privacy as being normal. It's NOT normal, and it's NOT right. Everyone has the right to privacy and the right to demand it.

 

[SeaFox]

That's not nice of Nice.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "nice security you got there".

 

[Codyak]

Hahahaha, this exactly what Verizon and those who support them deserve.

 

[willmtaylor]

Hahahaha, this exactly what Verizon and those who support them deserve.

Hah. Bitter much?

 

[EdT]

Let's see.....


Yahoo had several large data breaches allowing customer information to be made public.

Verizon bought Yahoo.

Verizon has a large data breach allowing customer information to be made public.

I guess this was a perfect merger.

 

[magicschoolbus]

Must be all of those Russian hackers.

 

[B4U]

Verizon's excuse is pathetic now.
Just because they think no one accessed the data (this is also questionable), then the affected are no longer "affected"?

 

[DeepIn2U]

The thing that struck me from this article is that the author said PIN number which is incorrect. It is a personal identification number, as such, already had the word number in the acronym. PIN number offends me as an English speaker.

This world so many people spit acronyms just to sound intelligent and yet so much confusion of the real definitions.
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Verizon's excuse is pathetic now.
Just because they think no one accessed the data (this is also questionable), then the affected are no longer "affected"?

I think it's stupid for any business not to check where their data is housed. Using Amazon's S3 servers which has always been infested with male ware, virus, and Trojans for the past decade is evidence of stupidity.

 

[willmtaylor]

I think it's stupid for any business not to check where their data is housed. Using Amazon's S3 servers which has always been infested with male ware, virus, and Trojans for the past decade is evidence of stupidity.

Someone really ought to tell Netflix, Reddit, Dropbox, Mojang, Tmblr, and Pinterest then!

 

[DeepIn2U]

Someone really ought to tell Netflix, Reddit, Dropbox, Mojang, Tmblr, and Pinterest then!

Indeed they should IF they're using those S3 servers.

Most recent outages: funny how Amazon's services and data never fall in these type of outages

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.netwo...ashes-flood-of-apologies-from-others.amp.html

I'm storage indices can be affected even though processing my not occur.

 

[willmtaylor]

Indeed they should IF they're using those S3 servers.

They do. You should get on that.