[HN Gopher] VW says data breach at vendor impacted 3.3M people i... ___________________________________________________________________ VW says data breach at vendor impacted 3.3M people in North America Author : ibraheemdev Score : 21 points Date : 2021-06-12 18:15 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com) | hn_throwaway_99 wrote: | I've said this before, but at this point I think the better | solution is to just assume name, phone, email, address, DoB, | social security number and drivers license number are fully | public, because they pretty much already are. | | Then, from, that perspective, companies shouldn't treat that | information as individually identifiable because it's likely | already public. | [deleted] | azinman2 wrote: | > The sensitive data was comprised of driver license numbers in | more than 95% of cases. A small number of records included | additional data like dates of birth, Social Security numbers and | account numbers. | | Wow so only that. My gosh, why is that information in a 3rd party | vendor's db at all?! | vmception wrote: | New Fullz (real people's IDs) for sale. Finally a way to cash | out your illicitly earned crypto. | | Make a new Coinbase account in someone else's name, and a new | brokerage account in their name too. They'll never know! Access | via remote desktop from a compromised computer near their zip | code, check the markets those are everywhere too! That person | will never know either! You can buy your favorite penny stock | with the funds in their name and be seen as a having a good | trading year in your own real identity and clean funds. | | Not advocating anything, this is what happens all day every | day. | garyfirestorm wrote: | For you to cash out your crypto wouldn't you need to transfer | it to your account? Isn't that enough for IRS to knock on | your door? | vmception wrote: | you missed the part where you make another account in | someone else's name because you had bought their ID | | the IRS and DOJ will go knocking on their door and parade | them around, writing "no matter what assets you trade, you | can't hide and our financial system is immune from illicit | funds" | jacquesm wrote: | With a paper trail a mile wide leading to the wrong door: | sure. 'Your account' is their account. By the time the | money hits a real account in control of the perp it will be | offshore for sure. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-12 23:00 UTC)