So your data was stolen in a data breach

Planet Money

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you... exist in the world, it's likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen. This happened recently to potentially hundreds of millions of people in a hack that targeted companies like Ticketmaster, AT&T, Advance Auto Parts and others that use the data cloud company Snowflake.

On today's show, we try to figure out where that stolen data ended up, how worried we should be about it, and what we're supposed to do when bad actors take our personal and private information. And: How our information is being bought, sold, and stolen.

This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Keith Romer. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and edited by Meg Cramer. It was engineered by Ko Takasugi-Czernowin with an assist from Kwesi Lee, and fact-checked by Dania Suleman. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.

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1:18.0	I recently got a letter in the mail and it's pretty likely you got one of these two.
1:26.0	It is the special kind of letter that sometimes gets turned into a Planet Money episode.
1:31.0	And that is because this letter is just the tip of an iceberg and beneath the water
1:36.1	is a profoundly deep mass of bought, sold, and stolen personal data.
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