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Episode: 3726
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Title: HPR3726: Breaches ever reaching
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3726/hpr3726.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 04:40:54
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,726 from Monday the 14th of November 2022.
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Today's show is entitled, Reaches Ever Reaching.
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It is part of the series' privacy and security.
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It is hosted by Lurking Pryon and is about four minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, a short episode about the reaching effects of breaches and forgotten accounts.
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Well, hey, this week we have the Maria Breach, well, another one.
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So, yeah, here's the thing to keep in mind.
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These breaches are going to happen.
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It's a natural part of life, and something to keep in mind is that hotels are always
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going to be prime targets.
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Think about the type of information that you give a hotel.
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You give them your frequent flyers, you tell them where you're going to fly, typically
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a copy of your passport, maybe a copy of your driver's license, when you sign up for
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the perks, you've got all of the information about where you live, you have your credit
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cards on file, and those reward programs.
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Those are something that matter because you get points for doing different things.
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Now, what a lot of people don't think about whenever there's a breach like this is going
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back in to their Married Account and seeing what other accounts were linked through that.
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What would happen if someone were to take that information from the Married Breach and
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manage to get access and steal all of your frequent flyer miles or use them for something
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else?
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This is stuff that's kind of suck, and that's one of the things that we need to start
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thinking about is when there's a breach, it's not a matter of if, it's simply when, when
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there's a breach.
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Let's go and look at that place and see what information they had, where else was that
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information being used?
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Maybe it's time to go and update your frequent flyer password.
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Let's go log in and change that so that somebody else can't get access to it.
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Maybe it's time to drop that credit card and get a new one or whatever the case happens
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to be.
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So, something to think about whenever you hear about a breach like this, if you have
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information with them and the thing to keep in mind is you may have signed up for this
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year to go and maybe you don't quite remember it.
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We sign up for rewards programs all the time.
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We sign up, we give them information and then we tend to forget about them and they sit
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around out there.
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Well, here's the thing, you really kind of need to find out what all old accounts you
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have sitting around out there in the public sphere.
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One of the easiest ways you can do this is to go through your email accounts and do a search
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for things like welcome or activate your account or whatever other words you're used
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to seeing whenever you sign up for a new account, like maybe confirm your email, confirm
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your phone number.
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These are all things that are typically sent when you sign up for a new account.
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And we may have accounts out there that we don't get any information from because they
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were spamming us and we didn't really want to see it anymore.
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So we told them to stop sending us stuff and they fell out of sight and again out of mind.
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So something to think about, let's go looking for all those old accounts that we have out
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there.
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If you don't need them, why not close them down?
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You might still have an old live journal from years ago if you're old enough to remember
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live journal.
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You know, you might want to go find that and close it down, delete that information.
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Don't leave it sitting around out there.
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And hey, whenever you're finding stuff out there, you might find something kind of cool
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or you might find something kind of scary.
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Go ahead, share your stories.
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Let me know what you find, what kind of things you've forgotten about or what kind of things
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you discovered as you were looking through those old accounts that you have scattered
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across the internet that may have gotten lost to time and space.
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So hey, until next time, y'all stay safe, pay attention to the breaches, go out, look
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for those things that may have been impacted, and go find those old accounts that you've
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got open up somewhere and maybe close them or at least change the information on them.
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Until next time, y'all have a good one.
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Cheerio!
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