Should you… exist on this planet, it is doubtless that you’ve got gotten a letter or electronic mail sooner or later informing you that your knowledge was stolen. This occurred just lately to doubtlessly tons of of hundreds of thousands of individuals in a hack that focused corporations like Ticketmaster, AT&T, Advance Auto Elements and others that use the information cloud firm Snowflake.
On right this moment’s present, we attempt to determine the place that stolen knowledge ended up, how nervous we ought to be about it, and what we’re imagined to do when dangerous actors take our private and personal info. And: How our info is being purchased, offered, and stolen.
This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Keith Romer. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and edited by Meg Cramer. It was engineered by Ko Takasugi-Czernowin with an help from Kwesi Lee, and fact-checked by Dania Suleman. Alex Goldmark is Planet Cash‘s government producer.
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