The Hacked Data Broker? Be Very Afraid

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hacked-data-broker-be-very-afraid-1441684860

By CHRISTOPHER MIMS
The Wall Street Journal
Sept. 8, 2015

Many security and privacy researchers expect a cyber-breach event that 
will make the hack of infidelity site Ashley Madison look like a footnote 
by comparison. It could affect not just people seeking extramarital 
affairs, but everyone in America.

Even more daunting, it could be under way already, and we don’t even know 
it, say computer security experts.

It’s difficult to pick the worst-case scenario for this breach, as each 
could be devastating in a different way. It might involve the revealing of 
everything from shopping habits to the complete Web browsing histories of 
many Americans. It could put national security in jeopardy by giving 
hackers the ability to create spear-phishing attacks—in which people are 
tricked into compromising their computers via emails from businesses that 
look legitimate—containing so much personal detail that even the most 
paranoid of government employees or contractors could be fooled.

These security experts say we have unwittingly built the most perfect 
online surveillance system ever contemplated—for bad guys.

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