Pôle emploi, France's governmental unemployment registration and financial aid agency, is informing of a data breach that exposed data belonging to 10 million individuals.
France aside, TransUnion, Equifax, Experian, etc. do sell our data to third parties and access to that data can be available on black markets. The reason for this is that when data is sold to third parties the controls around that data inherently start to degrade. This is not including all the high profile data breaches they experience and get slapped on the wrist for.
When I was working at some larger financial companies, we had a few people that specifically searched for and in some cases, bought this data.
My original quip was more focused on my frustration based on my country and my experience and slightly off topic, to be fair.
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France aside, TransUnion, Equifax, Experian, etc. do sell our data to third parties and access to that data can be available on black markets. The reason for this is that when data is sold to third parties the controls around that data inherently start to degrade. This is not including all the high profile data breaches they experience and get slapped on the wrist for.
When I was working at some larger financial companies, we had a few people that specifically searched for and in some cases, bought this data.
My original quip was more focused on my frustration based on my country and my experience and slightly off topic, to be fair.