So your data was stolen in a data breach

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If you… exist in the world, it’s likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen. This happened recently to potentially hundreds of millions of people in a hack that targeted companies like Ticketmaster, AT&T, Advance Auto Parts and others that use the data cloud company Snowflake.

On today’s show, we try to figure out where that stolen data ended up, how worried we should be about it, and what we’re supposed to do when bad actors take our personal

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