Who do you trust?

Sadly, whomever you trust or don't, your data is held and accessed by a lot of people you have no choice but to trust. A lot of those people are corrupt.

MOST 'hacking' and data/identity theft is done as an inside job.

Today's examples:

Twitter hacking an 'inside job'

Thai national suspected of using PM's accounts

and

Employees accessed records of 2,252 car accident victims for attorney referral service

These are just the most recent ones.

Basically, you cannot simply give your data (SSN, CC#, Address, Phone number, MMN, etc) to a bank or hospital and never think on it again. Even if (and that is a BIG if) said organization takes reasonable precautions against losing your data, an internal attack is hard to see, and near impossible to completely avoid.

Lesson to learn from this? Keep a close eye on your credit reports and other records of financial activity. Know when your activity changes, why and what to do about it.

hey, that fits the motto: Baseline, Compare & Communicate.

cool.

-knowmad