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2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed (www.tomsguide.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PII data at rest (i.e. in a database) must be encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the DB is running, it's not at rest. Clients side encrypted data would be the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think my definition is pretty standard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_at_rest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The catch is interpretation, which the wiki points out:

“Inactive data” could be taken to mean data which may change, but infrequently.

Any company like this one would consider this data "in use" but "inactive" because any person could need a loan at any point.