I honest to fucking God don’t understand how cybersec is so fucking bad that there are so many damn data breaches that I lost count. I had a few accounts on chatgpt (that I dont use anymore) but they are all compromised now…
Just what the fuck is this shit? Are they done by lone actors or cybercrime gang? Or are they state actors or state-backed actors? Or are they inside jobs to allow the company to sell data illegally to make more money? Flock has admitted to using data from data breaches to their system.
You also notice how rarely you hear about cybercriminals getting caught? It’s almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.
Never use emails addresses tied to secure services such as banking or shopping or gov services for any other purpose.
Create email addresses through various services for various purposes.
Banking, google services like YouTube, social media, personal - friends and family, and of course an account for porn.
Don’t use your real name or any actually useful when creating an email addreas
Use email relays or anon email that creates random addresses and forwards to your email.
Use proton mail and have up to 10 alias accounts at a time.
Use temp email addresses.
Compartmentalize your online accounts and data to minimize exposure and damages.
Not gonna happen. I would need at least 50 email accounts to compartmentalize everything I do online. Honestly probably a lot more than that. Maintaining that many accounts becomes a security risk in itself.
If you own a domain you can redirect all to a single inbox, so there is nothing to manage. You register at randomsite? [email protected] it is. Every account gets a unique email address, all emails end up in the same inbox, and there is nothing to do, you have infinite addresses.
And you never share your actual Proton address where it all ends up.
That’s exactly what I have been doing. I still have my Gmail account… but only for government and commercial shit. Anything else has an alternate or even temporary email.
Including lemmy accounts.
Good Security and record Profits are antithetical Ideals.
record Profits
Then what’s OpenAI’s excuse?
Excuse you, they have the concepts of record profits
It’s almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.
Most of those cyber criminals sit outside of western jurisdiction. That’s why they are “safe” from arrests. Good luck enforcing an arrest warrant in Russia, India, China or North Korea.
I guess that makes sense. I guess if those hackers were in North America we’d see some arrests?
And we do! Usually it’s American/British kids that get caught after going after high profile targets because they’re kids and they’re dumb. Some of the more well known groups (e.g. Scattered Spider, The Com) specifically recruit minors to do the hands on keyboard operations because they’re less likely to get time than adults. Most resourced hackers are not stupid enough to launch operations against Western organizations from countries with extradition agreements.
https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/scattered-spider-mgm-hackers-indictment/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/uk-charges-four-in-scattered-spider-ransom-group/
They’re so worried about getting into AI they don’t care about the environmental impact, the economic impact, security, or whether it even works.
I should start a company that instructs companies on how to avoid all these data breaches: stop giving 3rd party access to your customers data.
Nice! Would be nice if at least few idiots would stop using this planet destroying shit.
Inside job most likely went down like: “oh noes mr data broker, I have to step away for a minute, so by all means do not forget to take all that money you’ve set on my desk next to all that data I’ve left unsecured and unattended!” - OpenAI is founded as a company based on stolen IP. Altman belongs in prison.
