BlueSky, the fully decentralised (wink wink) social media platform is down worldwide again.
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Whoops. The data broker giant LexisNexis has suffered another data breach. LN says the data taken was no big deal. The group claiming credit for the breach claims otherwise, of course.
This brings back memories of previous breach stories. One of my first big scoops that made the WaPo dead tree edition's front page involved a breach at LexisNexis in 2005 that exposed >300k consumer records. That breach was from a group of 15-18y/os in the US who also social engineered T-Mobile into giving them access to Paris Hilton's cell phone and the nudes w/in.
In 2013, I published a scoop about a LexisNexis breach that came from group of criminal hackers who had seized control over ssndob[.]ru, then the largest ID theft service in the underground. In that months-long investigation, we found the hackers had installed backdoors on servers at LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, and Kroll and were using them as part of a small and custom data broker botnet.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service/
It's getting quite annoying that other instances who want to make it easy for people to sign up on their instance (read get more users faster) end up causing way more work for the rest of us who are trying to act responsibly.
I KNOW IT SUCKS, I KNOW IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT, BUT PLEASE DISABLE YOUR DAMN OPEN MASTODON INSTANCE REGISTRATIONS
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what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:
"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."
https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928