ClixSense Suffers Massive Data Breach, 6.6 Million Users Compromised (digitaltrends.com) 16
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Digital Trends: ClixSense, a site which pays users to view ads and take surveys, was the victim of a massive data breach compromising around 6.6 million user accounts. Usually when there's a data breach of this size, the information stolen contains usernames, passwords, and some other personal information, but due to the nature of ClixSense and the service it provided, home addresses, payment histories, and other banking details have also been compromised. According to the message posted to PasteBin along with a sample of the stolen data, social security numbers, dates of birth, and some internal emails from ClixSense may also have been compromised. Ars Technica reported this morning that about 2.2 million people have had their data posted to PasteBin over the weekend, reportedly just a taste of the 6.6 million user accounts that have been stolen. The hackers responsible stated in their PasteBin post that they intend to sell the user information they gathered, without disclosing a specific price. PasteBin has since removed the posts and the sample of the compromised user account information.
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What's the over/under on all data stored in the clear unhashed/unsalted?
based on the sample data, it looks like it was *all* cleartext, nevermind salted.
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Re: Stupid business model + stupid practices = ___ (Score:4, Interesting)
You might be surprised who falls for scams like "Now hiring data entry workers, work from home with no credit or background check! Get started today, click here to submit your application and $5 processing fee." It's not rich people who get suckered $5 at a time by those offers, it's desperate people, and this list will contain a lot of desperate people.
Makes Sense... (Score:5, Funny)
If you are willing to view ads and take surveys... do you EXPECT your info to be protected?
Re:Makes Sense... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you are willing to ...do you EXPECT your info to be protected?
Well...yeah...I do actually. For all values of . The fact that the US has precisely zero protections on this is an epic regulatory failure.
All industry holds me to a standard of fiscal responsibility, dictated by my credit score. These crack whores probably just demolished a whole bunch of random peoples' credibility with no recourse. The only person that suffers in these breaches is "me". The fuckoffs that build shitty systems, harvest, process and harvest some more of my personal data...even when I have NO business relationship with them WHATSOEVER...well, they're just fucking me over and I don't even know them.
We've built a trust system in which you have no option but to trust. If you click "cancel" then you don't get to participate in life, goodbye.
We've got Wells Fargo committing mass fraud now and they're proving daily that they just aren't trustworthy. How do we counter that?
We have a system based on blind hope and it seems we're morally bankrupt.
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We have a system based on blind hope and it seems we're morally bankrupt.
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows... (1 Timothy 6:10 NLT)
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, inso
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Where's the "-1 Idiotic" mod when you need it?
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Is that you Bill O' Reilly
And who wins? And who loses? (Score:2)
"People like you...
-> BARNEY
Well...
And you,
-> UH, CLEM
People who are alter..." (Firesign Theater, I Think We're all Bozos on this Bus)
No doubt companies have been fined and/or penalized in the courts for leaking information like this. And rightfully so, but has any executive ever been held responsible, paid a fine or done jail time? Corporations don't make decisions, humans do. They are responsible.
So? (Score:2)
Of all the data breaches in the past years, this one is the first (and possibly the only) one that I can only meet with a heartfelt "meh".
People who agree to watch ads and answer surveys for money already have lost all their privacy. It's not like anyone (but the party responsible for the data breach) got damaged by this.
And "oh no, now they can get scammed...". Stop. Do you really think that it makes a difference whether the scammer buys the data from the hacker or from Clixsense?