I'm so glad we banned tik tok so my data doesn't fall in the wrong hands.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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Somebody needs to make a "Dell Dude meme" about this.
"Dude, you're getting your identity stolen!"
They emailed me earlier about it... Good thing I've only ever bought a monitor from them.
Sames. They make sweet monitors.
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Holy fuck. Is that like all their customers?
lol no
Dude, you’re getting a delinquency letter.
But, like, we paid our fine. Sorry 🤙
These companies should be forced to pay big money to each and every person affected by these breaches. Not like $120. Like $10,000 per. Teach them real lessons
The breach here is pretty minor, in my book. Name, address, specifics of computer purchased. The name and address is pretty much available and linked already. The computer isn't, but doesn't seem that abusable. Maybe it could help someone locate more-expensive, newer computers for theft, but I don't see a whole lot of potential room for abuse.
I do see potential room for abuse. Let say someone has the list and contact the members of the list saying that they are from Dell and it is about the computer they purchased. They have all details, spec, address, etc so it believable. Then they tell them to buy some “antivirus” or install some “hot fix” etc. Scammers are already doing this, but it is less convincing.
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It's only minor if the data points in this breach are used by themselves.
Once you aggregate this with other data breaches, you could end up with a much bigger capability to target anyone in this breach.
afaict only if a specific hardware vulnerability was found and they cross-linked it with an online account or other network info to try and exploit it.
Or, I guess you could just assume Windows and go with one of the many zero-days that happen there. The trick is still crosslinking them tho. Presumably google has the wifi info.
Don’t care, punish them all the same.
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But instead they will be fined, and they will pay that fine to the government.
and then, us as the consumer will pay for the fine as well
They just pay up and do it again. It's a business expense, not a punishment.
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