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I honest to fucking God don't understand how cybersec is so fucking bad that there are so many damn data breaches that I lost count. I had a few accounts on chatgpt (that I dont use anymore) but they are all compromised now...

Just what the fuck is this shit? Are they done by lone actors or cybercrime gang? Or are they state actors or state-backed actors? Or are they inside jobs to allow the company to sell data illegally to make more money? Flock has admitted to using data from data breaches to their system.

You also notice how rarely you hear about cybercriminals getting caught? It's almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Never use emails addresses tied to secure services such as banking or shopping or gov services for any other purpose.

Create email addresses through various services for various purposes.

Banking, google services like YouTube, social media, personal - friends and family, and of course an account for porn.

Don't use your real name or any actually useful when creating an email addreas

Use email relays or anon email that creates random addresses and forwards to your email.

Use proton mail and have up to 10 alias accounts at a time.

Use temp email addresses.

Compartmentalize your online accounts and data to minimize exposure and damages.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Not gonna happen. I would need at least 50 email accounts to compartmentalize everything I do online. Honestly probably a lot more than that. Maintaining that many accounts becomes a security risk in itself.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 11 hours ago

That's exactly what I have been doing. I still have my Gmail account... but only for government and commercial shit. Anything else has an alternate or even temporary email.

Including lemmy accounts.

[–] j4yc33@piefed.social 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Good Security and record Profits are antithetical Ideals.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

record Profits

Then what's OpenAI's excuse?

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 10 points 13 hours ago

Excuse you, they have the concepts of record profits

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

They're so worried about getting into AI they don't care about the environmental impact, the economic impact, security, or whether it even works.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.

Most of those cyber criminals sit outside of western jurisdiction. That's why they are "safe" from arrests. Good luck enforcing an arrest warrant in Russia, India, China or North Korea.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I guess that makes sense. I guess if those hackers were in North America we'd see some arrests?

[–] grumpasaurusrex@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

And we do! Usually it's American/British kids that get caught after going after high profile targets because they're kids and they're dumb. Some of the more well known groups (e.g. Scattered Spider, The Com) specifically recruit minors to do the hands on keyboard operations because they're less likely to get time than adults. Most resourced hackers are not stupid enough to launch operations against Western organizations from countries with extradition agreements.

https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/scattered-spider-mgm-hackers-indictment/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/uk-charges-four-in-scattered-spider-ransom-group/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/scattered-spider-hacker-gets-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Nice! Would be nice if at least few idiots would stop using this planet destroying shit.

[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Inside job most likely went down like: "oh noes mr data broker, I have to step away for a minute, so by all means do not forget to take all that money you've set on my desk next to all that data I've left unsecured and unattended!" - OpenAI is founded as a company based on stolen IP. Altman belongs in prison.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I should start a company that instructs companies on how to avoid all these data breaches: stop giving 3rd party access to your customers data.