Demise, taxes, and common, terrifying cybersecurity leaks. These are the info of life, as the newest AT&T information breach is educating us but once more. A TechCrunch investigation into leaked buyer information from the American telco big has led to AT&T resetting sure buyer account passcodes to stop them from being in danger.

The basis of the safety weak spot is a large, and AT&T’s information breach included a leaked dataset regarding greater than seventy million former and present AT&T account holders. Solely a fraction are nonetheless present, however the scale of the leaked dataset that TechCrunch dug into makes it plain that regardless of large quantities of labor and funding, there are nonetheless common, exploitable, and harmful for shoppers.

Whereas it’s nice to doff our cap at TechCrunch’s crack group of cybersecurity journalists — the doomer desk, if you’ll — it will be higher if they’d a bit much less to report on, as a substitute of the firehose of hacks, leaks, and compromises they uncover and write about every day. Hit play, let’s speak about it.