Use Bitwarden with a randomly generated password, its free. Also use two factor authentication obviously, and a separate email that is only for your finances.
There doesn’t seem to be any actual legal repercussions for companies that fail to protect customer/patient data in Canada.
I have a buddy working security in IBM. He says the same thing. It’s not about security but rather how much money is gained/lost from being secure enough. Even when shit hits the fan, the fees imposed on them are less than the cost to pay employees to implement a solution to stop it from ever happening. So they don’t get tasked to prevent it. Just deal with it when it happens.
Title makes it sound really bad but we are #8 while USA and Russia take the #1 and #2 slots…
Top 10 most breached countries in Q1
U.S. (16.9 million) Russia (4.4M) India (4.2M) Germany (3.9M) Spain (2.4M) The UK (2.2M) France (2.1M) Canada (0.89M) Argentina (0.79M) South Sudan (0.73M)What does this list look like when adjusted per capita?
For the US, this is 4% of people, for Canada, this is 2% of people.
Should really be adjusting that by population.
Take table below with a grain of salt. It is AI generated:
Country Breaches (millions) Population (millions) Breaches per 1,000 people South Sudan 0.73 11 66.4 U.S. 16.9 335 50.4 Spain 2.4 48 50.0 Germany 3.9 84 46.4 Canada 0.89 39 22.8 UK 2.2 67 32.8 France 2.1 65 32.3 Russia 4.4 144 30.6 Argentina 0.79 46 17.2 India 4.2 1,435 2.9 American here, I knew we weren’t the worst!
