Nearly 200K of highly sensitive medical information belonging to US military veterans was exposed online and showed evidence of a ransomware attack

Ha, mine got exposed a couple years ago (local office let a contractor load thousands of them on a thumb drive and leave, ended up online). They signed me up for "ID.me" for 3 years to protect me from identity theft.

ID.me is basically a glorified coupon/advertisement delivery platform targeting veterans, which sells itself as identity protection with perks. Then, ID.me got hacked, and all of my info I'd given them to prove my identity got shared with the goat. I got this sweet apology letter though.

So moral? They don't give a fuck. No one is held responsible. The general feeling is that "this kinda stuff just happens" and it's not really their fault. I'd love to see large numbers of people go to jail over this...

And not a single fuck was given...

I think I should run for Congress with a single policy... you screw up data storage, your company is "executed" (nationalized)

It would happen pretty quickly, based on how these cyberattacks are going. Also, Russia would like it.

The tip of the iceberg has not even been identified with the recent US SolarWinds cyber attack.

Then again, nationalizing care would bring up the standard. Not like I trust the US government, however, the third leading cause of death is believed to be preventable medical errors. The level of care is particularly poor and inconsistent outside of the east and west coasts, with a few notable areas as exceptions geographically. As a chronically ill individual with 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, it's not like I trust the system. I basically fell through the cracks, over and over again.

Nationalizing care would not bring up the standard. It didn't with the OPM Database.

(And given that the ultimate has already happened, what are you going to do? Nationalize the CIA? Then nationalize it again with the next breach?)

"The Central Intelligence Agency, however, does not use the OPM system; therefore, it may not have been affected"

Why? because nationalized organisations never get hacked?

Because putting the fear of god into people often works, especially when it cuts into the gravy train.

So if a companies finances get leaked you’d nationalize them?

A company's finances is their own data, so they haven't harmed anyone else by leaking it. A company leaking your finances, is, or perhaps should be a crime by negligence.

Would lead to better price discovery for the 5th amendment’s equivalent exchange requirements

> ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware.

Makes sense, we did it with drugs and there's no more drugs.

Drugs are not a unit of exchange that rely on markets, they are consumables.

A better comparison would be online gambling - which has been banned effectively in the US.

123 million records exposed that contained a combination of test and production data. The most disturbing part of the discovery was a massive collection of 13 million user records that included their names, email addresses, user ID numbers in plain text.

Over 60 million customer records by a Cloud Application Hosting company Cloud Clusters Inc. leaked including user/password credentials for Magento, WordPress accounts, and MySql.

I would guess though, far, far fewer than 60 million customers. I don't see anything that mentions how many "records" per customer were leaked.

I've never even heard of Cloud Clusters and I've been working for some of the largest hosts in the US for a decade. I highly doubt they have 60 million customers. GoDaddy doesn't have 60 million customers. RAX doesn't have 60 million customers...

60 million records. They could have reseller hosting where one "customer" has 100's or 1000's of sites on their account. Each of those sites is probably a record.