Time to Turn Off the Internet: ANOTHER New Data Breach

I am once again calling for society to take the internet and yeet it directly into the sun. We're not ready for it.

Yet another data breach has occurred, and it's somehow worse than the previous data breaches. SHIDD YOUR BRICHES, BORTHERS.

2.9 Billion Full Names, Addresses, and Social Security Numbers Exposed in Latest Breach

I am 100% serious: the internet experiment is a failure and we need to take it out behind the shed and SHOT TUAH Old Yeller that thang.

This latest data breach exposes full names, addresses, and social security numbers to jerkface dark web ghouls...and it wasn't revealed until a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT was filed. This hack appears to be centered on a public records data provider called National Public Data...which specializes in - get this - FRAUD PREVENTION.

Big oof.

Still not safe out here... (Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash)

From Bloomberg: "To conduct its business, National Public Data scrapes the personally identifying information of billions of individuals from non-public sources—meaning plaintiffs didn’t knowingly provide their data to the company..."

From NON-PUBLIC SOURCES?!

While we're launching The Internet into the sun (directly), let's also strap National Public Data to the dilapidated yeet rocket.

Ya know what? Gorilla glue me onto that rocket, too. I want off this planet.

What To Do When Data Breaches Happen

Keep a close eye on your bank and financial accounts, even review the past few months. Identity Theft Protection and/or Credit Monitoring services aren't free, but will help protect you...since idiots with way too much access to our information won't.

And that is today's Sign of the Apocalypse.

H/T: Toms Guide / Bloomberg Law

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Average Age For US 'Firsts': First Kiss, Job, and Drink By State

Before the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which set the legal age for alcohol consumption at 21 throughout the US, states could set their minimum drinking age. Of course, that doesn't mean that is the first time someone has sipped booze. Thanks to Ovid Life's Analysis of America's Firsts, we now have an idea of the average age in each state that people first tipped one back, but also at what age, on average, for their first kiss and first job. See if your age matched the average in this state by state look at milestones.

Gallery Credit: Scott Clow

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