Check your credit report frequently, look out for accounts opened using your name and social security number, which might have been filched through database hacks, and be hyper-protective of your financial information.
Clinkle endured layoffs, had its database hacked, and saw high-profile hires resign.
While only time will tell if the accusations of database hacking are true, the damage done to the franchise's reputation will take years to repair.
Given that major corporations regularly find their Web sites and databases hacked, and "Trojan horses" can take over home computers, it's questionable whether any Internet voting can be made completely secure.
The danger is in having unencrypted databases hacked.
Each blockchain, like the one that uses Bitcoin, is distributed: it runs on computers by volunteers around the world; there is no central database to hack.
Zappos says its customer database was hacked.
He uses Target, whose database was hacked in 2013, affecting up to 70 million of their customers, as a case in point, saying: "Look what happened to Target.
Then, last year, the clinic's database was hacked; the medical records, names and addresses of hundreds of performers were posted online, creating a furor.
