Bell Canada hacked

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Insidious Von

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At least some email notifications have been sent out. I can't wait for the class-action lawsuit.
 
Its worse than just emails despite whatever news says

Employee ID, info, personal names + cell numbers, sin numbers
Lots of stolen data in this one
 
wonder how long they knew before they tell us. Quite a few announce they were hacked 6mths, 1 year ago. By then its too late to do much other than hope for the best.
 
This kind of thing happens all the time now.

I bought some lingerie for an ex girlfriend a few years back, and a few weeks later received a call from my bank asking about suspicious purchases in Tennessee of all places. I don't use my CC to make a lot of online purchases, so I assumed the place I bought from was hacked. Sure enough, 6 months later, I get an email from them saying they were hacked.

That's just one example. Target was hacked, Yahoo was hacked, Bell has now been hacked. There's plenty of others too. We are so far behind on cyber-security.
 
The "Bone" Ranger said:
I already got an email saying the hacker got my email address whatever the fuck that means
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I got that one too.

Chill the fuck out, they are just bluffing.
They have nothing on you, they just claim to have it
 
gww said:
wonder how long they knew before they tell us. Quite a few announce they were hacked 6mths, 1 year ago. By then its too late to do much other than hope for the best.
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Let's hope the OSC doesn't get involved. We don't need another "Home Trust debacle".
 
gww said:
Huh? unrelated topics.
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No, not unrelated. Bell is a public company. OSC is tasked with "protecting" investors in public companies. OSC might charge Bell with lack of timely disclosure. We saw what happened when the OSC charged Home with lack of timely disclosure.
 
What is concerning about all these hacks is that it appears that companies are not taking the time or spending the money needed to protect their business and therefore us, the consumer, by default.

Take the hospital hacks for example. The hack was done because of a lack of updated software. Now don't get me wrong, software costs money. These companies don't want to spend the money to pay companies who can maintain this so they went with the cheapest solution. Microsoft.

Then they did not upgrade said software to new versions that have to be bought over and over again, because that is how Microsoft makes their money. Always making new OP software.

These companies need to be taking more responsibility with their security, instead of going with the cheapest solution.

Let's be real though, that will never happen.
 
Jessica Rain said:
What is concerning about all these hacks is that it appears that companies are not taking the time or spending the money needed to protect their business and therefore us, the consumer, by default.
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There is talk that the government(s) will impose financial penalties on these companies for not adequately protecting customer data. What is not clear is whether the money will go to you or just to the government.
 
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