Name: What's Going On With Your Data | Untangled
Uploaded: 2019-05-14T01:47:02.000Z
Duration: 5 min 39 s
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there's a good chance your data has been hacked, leaked, or stolen.

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Over a billion users were affected by data breaches in 2018,

without your information eventually leaking?

We trust companies with a lot of our data.

the data's being used or if it's protected.

Large data breaches can leak data from multiple companies,

often containing information of millions of users.

was released on the file-hosting site Mega.

Collection #1 contained millions of passwords

and emails all collected from previous data breaches.

But sometimes the attacks are more specific.

Hackers often target individual companies

The largest hack so far was the Yahoo hack.

In 2013, 3 billion user accounts were compromised.

birth dates, and even security questions and answers.

Even though that breach happened in 2013,

users didn't know the full scale until three years later.

More recently, T-Mobile was targeted by hackers

These types of hacks are all too common nowadays.

Third parties can have access to your data

When you sign into an app or a game with Facebook,

and it's hard to know how the data you share

In 2015, the app This Is Your Digital Life

Facebook gave the app access to user-profile data

and information on subjects each user was interested in.

Users of the app had no idea this data was being used,

that Facebook had unintentionally uploaded

1.5 million email contacts without user permission.

Facebook has even been criticized for using phone numbers

used to verify passwords to instead target ads,

taking something that was supposed to be used for security

Sometimes there isn't even malicious intent,

In 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported

that a bug in Google Plus could have exposed

the data of hundreds of thousands of users.

but they failed to disclose this issue for months.

If your email address is leaked, for example,

But it gets worse when more private information is exposed.

you're at risk of having your account stolen

And depending on where the data came from

to your email login, online bank accounts,

The worst-case scenario can include things like

According to research from Norton Lifelock,

OK, so at this point, you're probably a little freaked out

and are wondering what you can do to protect your data.

Here are a few tips that don't take a lot of time

First, check if your data has been leaked.

has a database of information that has been exposed.

You can input your info like an email address

or old passwords to see if that data has been leaked.

If it has, change those passwords right away.

using the same password for everything is a horrible idea.

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