The problem will get worse until consumer protection and privacy are priorities. It will only get worse yet with the growth of identity verification enforcement across technologies.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Let me guess: they're really sorry.
I cannot fathom why such data breaches aren't prosecuted as crimes of the company as well as the thieves.
This doesn't happen because the hackers struck like a force of nature, but because the servers aren't kept secure constantly. Because that would be more expensive.
It's like a car company getting sued for making insecure cars. It's not hard to wrap your head around.
Exactly. The only solutions is to make keeping people's data a liability rather than an asset. That if there is any sort of beach there are criminal investigations and make the company liable for any and all losses stemming from that breach. Plus if their security was found negligent, than every one of their customers gets cause of action to personally sue them.
The next company to have a breach like this will go bankrupt. And that will sufficiently frighten the others.
Cybersecurity becomes a joke for more and more organizations.
Plausible accountability
Don’t worry, the resulting class action lawsuit will make them atone for their crimes. Expect your $1.17 Venmo payment in 9-27 months.
After Equifax and DOGE, I'm not sure I can bring myself to care anymore. Cat's out of the bag, and no one will be punished. I get shit on, again and again, and my "representatives" rake in that sweet "lobby" money to ignore the issue. I just wish the bad actors would share the lawmakers information very publicly so they might finally start caring.
I was in this breach, but, I'm pretty sure all my personal info was public anyways.
This will only start to stop once the fines for such data loss are high enough to make the costs for data protection look cheap in comparison.