<story><title>Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR</title><url>https://amatas.com/news/view/nearly-60-000-data-breaches-reported-since-the-launch-of-gdpr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>This is the kind of thing that makes me not want to register anywhere except on sites that use known open source and actively maintained software (so mostly forums). But I guess it&amp;#x27;s too late. The best I can do is generate a bunch of unlinked email addresses, and randomize passwords everywhere with my password manage. I used to use LastPass a lot, but once I lost my vault I havent gone back to fill a new vault, I really do want to use BitWarden as a LastPass alternative, but I&amp;#x27;ve just been putting it off for a while. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s definitely time to take the plunge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coding123</author><text>It sounds like you are taking the word &amp;quot;breach&amp;quot; in the title as if it&amp;#x27;s a security thing.&lt;p&gt;They are referring to breach as in breach of rules. These are not security vulnerabilities, these are GDRP complaints that may or may not be real, but have been reported by people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR</title><url>https://amatas.com/news/view/nearly-60-000-data-breaches-reported-since-the-launch-of-gdpr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>This is the kind of thing that makes me not want to register anywhere except on sites that use known open source and actively maintained software (so mostly forums). But I guess it&amp;#x27;s too late. The best I can do is generate a bunch of unlinked email addresses, and randomize passwords everywhere with my password manage. I used to use LastPass a lot, but once I lost my vault I havent gone back to fill a new vault, I really do want to use BitWarden as a LastPass alternative, but I&amp;#x27;ve just been putting it off for a while. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s definitely time to take the plunge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>If you own a domain you can use a catchall e-mail adress and then just invent the part left of the @ as you go. Then store that adress with a random password generated by keepass.&lt;p&gt;As a nice side effect you see who lost your data to the spammers, based on the email adress and you can block whole email addresses from getting stuff</text></comment>