So, you read about it a lot. Security breaches that ‘may’ have compromised the credit-card or other payment information of a lot of people.
Notice how people never say that payment information has been compromised. Only that it may have been.
So, what good does the information do for the villain? How do they get the money from the people whose information was compromised? Well, that’s where you come in.
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