Amazed that these “hacks” cannot be prevented.
From personal experience, multiple times, companies and governments have employees using and or selling your data.
The latest, one three days ago, from a routine hospital visit.
I am still recieving scam offerings from ten years ago instituted by an employee from a car dealership. I didn’t know where the serious scams were coming from until a cryptic call from the dealership where they were following up on an internal investigation. I knew exactly who the person was then, an alcholic service agent.
They can. This is willful ignorance of cybersecurity best practice. And this happens FAR MORE than you know.
From the article, this was someone inside who uploaded the info.