- "An investigation into the incident found the stolen information ranged from names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth to the last four digits of Social Security numbers and tax IDs."
Why should any company have your SSN or tax ID unless explicitly required by law? A credit check is one thing, but afterward they must delete the entire SSN and the credit report — as if they never possessed it.
Businesses required to keep it for tax/financial reporting (e.g., banks) should be banned from using it for any verification or identification purposes.
- Again sigh
2024 Home security giant ADT says it was hacked (34 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41193157
2021 Home Security Tech Hacked into Cameras to Watch People Undressing and Having Sex (32 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25876366
2015 How to Hack an ADT Alarm System (78 points, 68 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8947172
by hbcondo714
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- This article is from a couple weeks ago, the same day ADT submitted "Other Information" to the SEC about unauthorized access:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1703056/000170305626...
by bu110nab3nd3r
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- ADT is a scam. You pay 2k for $50 in stickers and yard signs, they sell your data to brokers aka intel agencies, and their service still sucks. You can jam their RF door and window sensors with trivial RF tools. They have most people opt in to let them access your cams “for security” reasons, and then they exfil your behavior profiles piped via cellular regardless of your settings.
by ButlerianJihad
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- ADT is the company that sells signs you put in your front yard to make burglars consider robbing your neighbors instead, right?
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