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My wife and I received letters in the mail today from Conduent, and underneath this name Return to Kroll.
I was suspicious so Googled it. This is what I found:
In early 2025, Conduent experienced a cyberattack where hackers accessed their systems, stealing personal data (names, SSNs, medical info) of over 10 million people, impacting users of various state agencies and health insurers like BCBS.
This is the fourth such data breach affecting me in the past few years.
As I posted recently this will not stop until congress passes a law the results in painful fines for companies’ lack of taking the security of our data seriously and these hacks become rare.
This is also why I feel a paper list of my passwords in a fire safe is more secure than password manager. All I hear is about how password manager are secure due to encryption
While I agree with you on fines for company’s which do not keep our data safe, keeping PWs on paper isn’t wise. And, you cannot generate random PWs without the support of a PW manager. My PW manager stores all of my data only on my local devices, not in their cloud. There is no chance that it can be lost if the company that sold me the program is hacked.
I do store the data in a cloud, but it is encrypted on my device before it is uploaded. Without the cloud, I could not sync the PW data across multiple devices.
I doubt that encryption is going to be secure much longer with the increase in computer power.
Exactly! But, you have to do the best you can in any environment. PassKeys with their biometric, device based add on will help. If quantum computing becomes real, encryption, and even the blockchain (Bitcoin) will fall.