QUICK TIP: Don’t Post About Being The Victim of A Breach

When a company or website you’ve signed up for becomes the victim of a cybersecurity attack, it puts everyone who has trusted the company with their personal information at risk. If a site you’ve entrusted with your information has been involved in a breach, it is perfectly normal to feel angry. After all, the entire situation was mostly out of your control! One thing to avoid, however, is posting publicly to social media about the ordeal. 

In this day and age, it’s common that when someone feels strongly about something, they post about it on their social media accounts. However, posting about being a victim of an information  breach will link your identity and social media account to at least some of the information included in the data breach. This includes not only the information that you entered to sign up for the account, but also things inferred from your post history, such as locations you frequent and things you enjoy that could be the answers to security questions for other sites. Thus, anyone with your personal information included in the site’s breached data can validate the information you’ve already given to the social media account and quite possibly get more. 

We know it’s a frustrating experience, but playing into the hands of those with your personal information will only make things worse! You’ve already had some of your personal information stolen, there’s no reason to offer out more.