Day: August 16, 2024
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How to Protect Yourself in the Age of Massive Data Breaches
A hacking group released sensitive personal data from 2.7 billion records, including Social Security numbers, stolen from National Public Data, raising significant concerns about identity theft and fraud. Experts warn that this breach could enable criminals to take over accounts or create fake ones despite the absence of email addresses and photos in the leaked…
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Jailbreak from Climate Change: Can Decarceration Protect Alaska’s Prisons?
In Alaska, advocates emphasize the need to reduce the prison population as a crucial response to the climate crisis, highlighting the vulnerability of aging correctional facilities to extreme weather events such as floods and thawing permafrost. The Fifth National Climate Assessment warns that climate-related damage poses significant threats to state infrastructure, with projections indicating over…
