I thought for sure "Becoming the victim of identity theft" would win because given lax enough cybersecurity its essentially inevitable for everyone, for small enough values of theft.
I must have gotten at least a dozen notifications of stolen passwords over the last quarter century and roughly similar number of database thefts.
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Flagged Comment by Anonymous Coward
on Friday March 07, @01:48AM (#1395504)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 07, @10:25AM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday March 07, @10:25AM (#1395560)
I'm not to the degree that outweighs the rest because I have my information frozen at all the places the various government agents recommend. In the past ten years, I've gotten exactly three alerts from them. The first was my bank checking my credit despite telling me they wouldn't when I did a transaction with them. The second turned out to be an "error" by an apartment complex checking my credit despite the fact I hadn't cosigned my child's lease. The third was my employer checking my information while we were negotiating a promotion that included a raise.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday March 06, @10:08PM (3 children)
I thought for sure "Becoming the victim of identity theft" would win because given lax enough cybersecurity its essentially inevitable for everyone, for small enough values of theft.
I must have gotten at least a dozen notifications of stolen passwords over the last quarter century and roughly similar number of database thefts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 07, @10:25AM (1 child)
I'm not to the degree that outweighs the rest because I have my information frozen at all the places the various government agents recommend. In the past ten years, I've gotten exactly three alerts from them. The first was my bank checking my credit despite telling me they wouldn't when I did a transaction with them. The second turned out to be an "error" by an apartment complex checking my credit despite the fact I hadn't cosigned my child's lease. The third was my employer checking my information while we were negotiating a promotion that included a raise.