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For the love of all that's holy!

This kind of thing happens so often with so many different types of organizations, perhaps they should send out letters to customers only when there hasn't been a data breach.

Much like Homer's "Everything's OK Alarm"

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Sooooo, I get two years of free credit monitoring, courtesy of these dolts. Oh, and a one million dollar accidental death and dismemberment policy, or something like that. No, actually it's a one million dollar we-promise-to-help-unfuck-your-credit-rating-if-you-get-tagged policy. Two years of that, too, Well, she-it, I guess that makes it all better.

Y'know, I'm certain that there are competent data security people out there, but it seems that there is at least an equal number of incompetent ones as well.

Recently got two in one week.

Hospital system here was a victim of a cyberattack. In speaking with someone in IT it seems these hospitals do not have adequate cybersecurity teams.

The Hell you say.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Hospital system here was a victim of a cyberattack. In speaking with someone in IT it seems these hospitals do not have adequate cybersecurity teams.

And they never will have.

I, and quite a number of my I.T. cohort my age, saw this coming a long time ago. Somewhere not long after the dawn of the commercially-available Internet and desktop computers running general-purpose operating systems beginning to take over from terminals on the desktop.

Quite simply: There are too many computers, on too many desktops, running on poorly-thought-out, poorly-designed, and poorly-coded software, with inadequate border security that allows too much on and off the Internet.

Just got an email from my son’s school district that they had a data breach this Monday. More common than not.

Iirc I'd say my info has been hacked a dozen times, including the big Navy system that got hacked some time ago that held my Secret clearance info for 18 years (there's more personal information in that system than you might imagine, and not just on me). I gave up trying or giving a shit, since there's nothing you can really do about it that I'm aware of that would make much difference if you got screwed by criminal cabals.

400 million people's records are breached every year in the US.

If you think that is more than there are people you are correct.

Some lucky people get breached more than once a year.

I went to the webpage link provided in the letter, to register for the credit monitoring, and the page is totally jacked up: Fields overlapping each other so badly, you can't read what most of them say. I tried adjusting the zoom on the age, no luck. Firefox, Chrome and Brave all display the same way, so it's on their end. I managed to get partially through registration but it told me I had entered an invalid confirmation code. Well, I hadn't entered any confirmation code, because there was no field for it.

So, I opened the page in Firefox on my phone. OK, there's the confirmation number field, but it wouldn't let me enter my email address to complete registration, because it said that email address was already in use. Yeah, that's from my previous INCOMPLETE registration attempt, you JACKWAD CLOWNS! Why would they retain an email address for an incomplete/unconfirmed registration attempt??

OK, so I used an alternate address, completed the registration, and when I got into the home screen for my account, it's got the same overlapping/unusable/unreadable fields.

So far, everyone involved in this shit show has come off looking like amateurs- Columbia HCA, and this company they've employed for this purpose. I'll call them tomorrow, but I'll wager a long hold time leading to a terse conversation with an overloaded help desk person, since all these letters have just gone out.

I don't need this frustration.

After I got 2 letters in one week in 2015 regarding 2 different breaches, I just got tired of dealing with the nonsense and I put a freeze on all 3 credit agencies. Not as big of a hassle as I thought it would be. Now when I get notified of a breach, I don't even pay attention to it.