#data hack

Hey Oregon id card holders - apparently this happened earlier this month, but this is the first I've heard of it.

The breach compromised about 90% of the state’s license and ID cards, and DMV officials say all state residents should assume they were victims.

Driver licenses and ID cards contain many identifying details, including date of birth, home address, and an individual’s height, weight and eye color.

As a victim (?), survivor (?) of identity theft I’ve been using dark web monitoring services for years. Dark web monitoring is a proactive security service that scans hidden, non-indexed internet sites, forums, and marketplaces to detect stolen, leaked, or sold personal and corporate data. It provides real-time alerts about compromised credentials, financial info, or personal identifiers (PII),…

If you haven’t taken all (or any) of the data breaches seriously….. wtf I first discovered my data / identity was stolen 2013. With a little research, I found out that someone bought a phone in a store in a state and in a city that I literally have never set foot in. All 3 major (and the smaller 5) credit reporting companies have been hacked with loss of data. You don’t need to be online … ever…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/hacks-thefts-and-disruption-the-worst-data-breaches-of-2025/

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information.In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion article from Techcrunch 2.5…