One Defense Against Data Breaches: Don’t Have the Data to Begin With
By Raj Ananthanpillai, Founder and CEO, Trua When it comes to hackers stealing Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information, even members of Congress aren’t safe.So why would we think any of the rest of us are? After hackers accessed a healthcare marketplace for DC lawmakers and residents in March, investigatorsdiscovered Social Security numbers, […]
The Impacts of data breaches on your PII
Were you one of the almost 6 million people impacted by the PharMerica data breach? Unlike passwords, leaked information like SSNs, health insurance, and addresses aren’t things you can change on the fly — once the genie is out of the bottle, you can’t coax it back in. Tying sensitive and valuable PII to the validation of trust […]
Stop Being the Product: How Complacency Compromises Your Personal Data
It is a good time to be a hacker. There is an ocean of personally identifiable information (PII) that we all contributed to over the years. We share our date of birth here or our SSN there. We want to get discounts with a membership card at the grocery store and we surrender PII without […]