Curious about what some of the data breaches have been in 2019 and how they may affect YOU?

 
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-2019-data-breaches.html
I will wager an enjoyable beverage that, if you live in the US, and have done any business with any company in the past five years at least some piece of your data has been compromised..
As of earlier this year, FOUR BILLION records have been compromised...

• Capital One credit card (guess who has now gotten in to that wallet, as well?)
• Name, Address, Social Security Number, Reported Income, Linked Account #s !!  
• They state they have notified customers by MAIL.. 
• Evite 
• Only 100 Million accounts compromised, so you stand only a 1-in-3 chance of your data having been grabbed
• Door/Dash -- Food Delivery Service 
• You would not be at risk if you have not signed up for (Delivery workers, restaurants, and customers) 
•  American Medical Collection Agency 
• They collect overdue payments for a variety of medical labs.
• Georgia Tech University
• You should only be concerned it you have ever been affiliated with them
• Names, addresses, Social Security numbers and birth dates.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency 
• Anyone who has received funds from natural disasters, e.g., hurricanes, floods, CA Wildfires

And finally, one of the potentially  most harmful in the future:

• Biostar 2
• "Fingerprint data, facial recognition data, face photos of users, unencrypted usernames and passwords, logs of facility access, security levels and clearance, personal details of staff."
• Think of worst-case scenarios -- someone gets your fingerprint data and facial recognition data, which will one day be used for access via biometrics..  They can fake looking like you to some devices.
• Now this one only affected those who signed up (usually through their employer), but think of the potential risk?

We as the Citizens of this fine country must start pushing our FEDERAL Lawmakers to pass STRONG legislation that requires EVERY database that stores personally identifiable information ("PII") to be STRONGLY encrypted, and every breach must be reported Publicly (e.g., Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.), with a $1,000 fine for every record compromised, against every Sr. Executive in that company, within 30 days of the discovery, not a little note 18 months later on a little-known page on their website, or an obscure filing.
This is OUR information, folks!   If organizations want to collect this massive amount of data, they MUST SECURE IT !!!

Happy Friday, and may Father God richly bless you today and this coming weekend!