An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Maine” is a lot shorter than “an entire state.”

  I hate this “obscure the most relevant information for clicks” shit.

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  • Dagrothus@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They probably assumed people would know which state they’re talking about. Classic Maine character syndrome.

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    • Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Badum-tsss!

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Steven King knows.

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  • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At least they didn’t divide it up into a slideshow, with two lines of the article per slide. I’ve been seeing a ton of those lately.

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    • goldisgood4u@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      THIS. I FUCKING HATE THIS. WHOEVER CAME WITH THAT CAN GET FUCKED.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maine hardly counts as “an entire state” by population anyway! 1.3 million? Oooooh, that’s like… San Diego!

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And yet it’s still more than 2 Wyomings

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    • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The amount of people doesn’t define what a state is.

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  • Walnut356@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, “an entire x” does have markedly different meaning than “x”. The emphasis is that it’s, well, the entirety of x. It’s the difference between “i ate the cereal” and “i ate all the cereal”.

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    • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They could have easily fit “the entire state of Maine”.

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• thelastknowngod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think Mashable needs to talk to their own InfoSec team for an education… Stealing data and ransomware are not the same thing.

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• fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not “just”… It happened in May

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hate the headline.

  Also, Oregons DMV was compromised in the MoveIt, so my biometrics were also taken. Pair that with the notice I received from Blue Cross/Blue Shield that their data processor was compromised mean every appointment, diagnosis and medical issue and my biometrics details were also compromised.

  I was really pissed about both of those and the fact there is no accountability and I’ll get a $4 settlement from some shitty class action and 24-48 months of “Identity protection”, since, as we all know, data thieves only use stolen data in the first few years after it’s stolen. Especially biometric data that can’t change like eye color, height, and medical conditions.

  The US needs aggressive consumer protections to be able to delete and limit data storage ala California’s law, but also default separate storage for legacy info or auto-deletion after a certain time period to limit damage.

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