Zappos.com recently had a data breach. As data breaches go, it was not nearly as bad as it could has been: no full credit card numbers leaked, nor any plaintext passwords. What makes it special, then? It’s somewhat special to me, since it is, to my knowledge, the first time that I have been part of a data breach: I have a Zappos.com account, and I received the email about the breach. Notice I said “to my knowledge”; plenty of data leaks don’t get reported. I haven’t been a part of a major one, though, at least according to pwnedlist.com, where you can check to see if your email address or username has been leaked.

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