Als Nederland zijn we zo lek als maar kan. Het is schering en inslag. #datalek #dataharvest #datahackers

Persoonsgegevens van vrijwel alle inwoners Epe gestolen bij cyberaanval https://nos.nl/l/2611660

I've been getting emails from Dymocks Booksellers in regards to a cyberhack. They advise that "1.24 million customer contact records were stolen and made available if the dark web."

As a potential severity mitigation, they go on to advise that the info is limited to "contact information such as name, address, phone, email, membership details and date of birth"

They then tell me that it wasn't their systems which were compromised but those of a third party.

This begs a few questions - and these apply to many of these companies involved in these hacks - why are you sharing this data with other companies? Why do you, much less any third party org, need to keep my DOB?

I recently traveled all over Europe and the UK and was regularly asked for copies of my passport and other forms of ID. These are AirBnB owners and hotels - what guarantees do I have for my data safety?

There's got to be a better way...

#cybersecurity #DataHackers #identitytheft #privacy