I try to be careful what I put where to be as safe as I know how.
I also know, there is no such thing as truly secure. There is always someone somewhere that can get what they are after.
I realized a few years back that I was not really in control of any of the stuff. My bank put a loan application (yep.. everything on it) in an inter-office envelope and that was the last they saw of it. That was a good number of years ago and nothing bad came of it, but still....
Then a store called Home Depot was hacked and I got a letter alerting that limited info was taken.... but.....
Then I got a letter from my power company, Duke Energy that the online company they use to take their online payments was hacked..... again, limited info taken.... ummmm yeah....😏
THEN one of the three credit record keeping companies was hacked.... you know, one of those companies that gather's everyones info without their permission so other people can check their credit history if the person wants to buy something ?? Yeah.... one of those. Now, who should be better protected???? Thing is, it appeared from later reports that THEY neglected to do some sort of update that caused them to be vulnerable and it almost looked like it was saying they hadn't thought they needed it, not that they were not aware it was there to be used.
.... and they are still in business !! What tha ?!?!?!
So far, I have had nothing happen (that I have seen) that went wrong because of any of these, but for sure it seems no matter what I do myself, it doesn't really matter ! Still.... I continue to try to do my best not to make stoopid mistakes of my own. If the bad guys get something of mine and abuse it, I want it to be someone else's fault. ha ha
Hello there Jace, good points indeed.
Our information is already everywhere and we're reliant upon those companies/governments/storage facilities being secure which, as we all know, they are not. We had a case here where bales of un-shredded financial /personal documentation ended up at a dump...blowing around in the wind for everyone to pick up and see. Did heads roll? Nope.
Lolled at, limited information taken. Yeah right Duke Energy. That's code for, they got fucken everything! That's probably the biggest security risk for people, third-parties with our information. Of course, I don't think people need to add to the risk by disseminating their information all over the place, selfies, where they are, who they're with and so on.
You're lucky you've had nothing happen yet, I hope it never happens. I've been pretty fortunate and with this latest hack to that company the biggest problem for me has ben the frequency of the scammers by text, email and phone. I don't know if you remember that post I did about scam callers and how I got a whistle to use when they didn't take my polite dialogue about not being interested in what they have to offer...anyway, I got to use it the other day, long and loud blasts down the phone...It was glorious. I hope some ear drums started bleeding.