Half of US Adults Hit by Data Breaches in Past Year

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A recent study suggests some troubling statistics: an estimated 47 percent of all American adults have been affected by data breaches over the last year.

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[coolitic]

Doesn't take into account that most of those are the same people.

 

[ultameca]

"Most companies "hash" user passwords by running them through one-way mathematical algorithms before they're stored."

Do they really, I don't think most do... There have also been large corporations that failed too and most of the time you have no way of knowing if the company you are giving your data too is going to encrypt.

Even if the company hashes the password they usually don't hash the information they collected from you.

I think it's past time people started caring about the data being collected on them.