The 5 Dumbest Data Breaches in History and What You Should Learn from Them
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The 5 Dumbest Data Breaches in History and What You Should Learn from ThemOur idealistic kindergarten teachers duped us into believing that we’re defined by our character. But we’re now old enough to know that our personally identifiable information (PII) is what really defines us. That’s right; no matter how special we think we are, we’re still just atoms and PII.Somehow, over the course of billions of years of evolution, the purpose of IT managers and business owners has turned out to be guarding other people’s PII. This destiny is boring. But the second we let our guard down in a stupor of apathy, we wake up to data breaches, public-relations disasters and frantic job searches in hopes of quitting before getting fired.If that all sounds horrible, it is. But don’t worry. Plenty of other (...)
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