When Data Is Currency, Who’s Responsible for Its Security?
In a year that was all about data and privacy, it seems only fitting that we closed out 2019 in the shadow of a jumbo data leak where more than a billion records were found exposed on a single server. Despite this being one of the largest data exposures from a single source in history, it didn't cause nearly the public uproar that one might expect from a leak involving personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Instead, this quickly became yet another case of consumer information being mishandled, impacting many of the same consumers that have been burned several times already by companies they trusted. What's different about this leak – and what should have given consumers and businesses alike pause – is the way in which this case highlights a m...
