I note with some amusement, your distinction between "the likes of Yahoo!" and "more sensitive sites (...webmail etc)".
World+dog had 1.4 BEEEELLION of its data records exposed last year
Almost 1.4 billion data records were compromised worldwide during 2016, a whopping increase of 86 per cent compared to the year before. The collective spill occurred across 1,792 data breaches last year, according to security firm Gemalto's latest Breach Level Index (BLI) report. Identity theft was the leading type of breach …
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Tuesday 28th March 2017 13:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
there's a point at which...
its just easier to remain exposed and accept you no longer exist as a unique identifiable individual but as someone who exists as multiple people around the world, all of whom with the ability to spend on your credit card and take out loans in your name.
oh, and get you arrested.