Mastodawn

So, I have a loose rule of thumb that says if a podcaster is advertising something, that thing is probably a scam. (Not all podcasters, not all products.) Most of the “identity protection services“ are exactly that. Most of them are owned by data brokers, so...?

Anyway, I tell you that story to tell you this one: Aura has been breached, exposing almost a million records.

https://gizmodo.com/the-company-paid-to-protect-your-identity-just-got-hacked-2000735410

You can check Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned here to see if you’ve been caught up in any of the hundreds of data breaches recently:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Aura

#dataBreach #infosec #ShinyHunters #vishing #TroyHunt

The Company Paid to Protect Your Identity Just Got Hacked

Aura, which charges over a million customers to keep their identities safe, just had 900,000 records stolen by a hacking group. The breach started with a single phone call.

Gizmodo