Hacks used to be impressive, utilizing bits and pieces of technology that made us sit up and pay attention. Nowadays, every scam, breach, or sketchy text message gets labelled a "hack" when it's really just basic use of existing technology, or an outright scam. Let's take a closer look at how the meaning of “hack” has changed, from the complex brilliance of NotPetya in 2017, to today's flood of scams powered by stolen data and AI fakery. It’s the end of the Age of the Great Hack, and the rise of the Age of Many Scams.
When Daniel Rigmaiden was caught committing tax fraud, little did we know that he would expose an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights and even cause the surveillance laws to change.
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In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted