Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses | A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say b...

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Original Title: Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses | A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars