On: Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

[bearjaws]

If this is true, and they sent SSN willingly to random third parties, they should be forced to pay for a decade of credit monitoring.

[Dalewyn → bearjaws]

I'm pretty sure I have several lifetimes' worth of free credit monitoring with all the breachleaks happening all the damn time, if I could be arsed to redeem them.

[cptskippy → Dalewyn]

It would be nice if they just automatically signed you up for them. They already have and leaked your PII...

[SteveNuts → Dalewyn]

How long until we see speculators opening life insurance policies for people based on breached PII and PHI?

"This guy looks like he could drop dead any minute, let's put a million dollars on him"

[GrinningFool → bearjaws]

That would mostly benefit the monitoring services, and still leave each individual customer on the hook to fix the issues this caused for them.

"free credit monitoring" should not be a considered a valid solution to "oops we leaked your private data".