Trying to keep a secret? All it takes is to tell someone else and you risk that secret becoming public. Worse still, social media means that everything put out on the world wide web, this blog included, is accessible forever. And worse, information that we use on the web to assure privacy of our content, is forever being hacked.
The latest hack comes from Yahoo who shared that "user account
information was stolen from the company's network in late 2014" according to Business Insider and "The stolen data include names, email addresses, telephone
numbers, birthdays, hashed passwords, and some 'encrypted or
unencrypted security questions and answers.'". We are told that over 500 million accounts were affected. And if you use the same password for Yahoo that you use for other accounts, your information is at risk.
It has come to a point that every site we go on needs a unique id and password. Hard to do and harder to remember the more sites we use. Start to add up the number of different accounts you use and we have a major problem on our hands trying to keep track of every site we log into. We can't trust that our passwords are secure, that our personal data is safe, and our privacy is ensured. The Yahoo story isn't news because they aren't the first or the last to go through this. But as long as we are on the grid, our privacy is constantly being invaded.
