Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

A WIRED news roundup highlighting multiple high-impact privacy and security developments: congressional scrutiny and investigations into data-broker breaches and hidden opt-out pages that researchers say contributed to nearly $21B in identity-theft losses; a publicly exposed database containing billions of records including Social Security numbers; emergent systemic privacy risks from proposed DHS centralized biometric search tools and CBP’s Clearview AI contract; weak points in password managers and pervasive IoT privacy concerns (Ring/Amazon); and additional threats including FBI-controlled/