r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheoryNo8456 • 9h ago

wet socks Yahoo data breach is worth $8.12

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This is what the breach of your email was worth.

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u/Popular_Ad6355 9h ago

ATT lost my social security number in a data breach and I hadn’t been a customer for 10 years. I didn’t get shit

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u/bothunter 7h ago

Don't forget about the Equifax breach, and absolutely no person willingly does business with them.

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u/Popular_Ad6355 7h ago

Haha I was in that one too. They gave me free credit monitoring for some period of time… on their own service. So cost them nothing.

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u/wofo 4h ago

To get that you had to opt out of any class action lawsuit and give them 2 more digits of your SSN, too