Save your energy — but be alert for the fallout from the hackers' data dump

Information about our lives is now out there on the dark underbelly of the internet, we'll just have to deal with the consequences 
Save your energy — but be alert for the fallout from the hackers' data dump

After the cyberattack on the HSE, along with other breaches affecting Facebook and other social media services, but we must not let the worry consume us.

The dam breaks today. If the criminals are true to their word, data relating to all of us is now available on the dark underbelly of the internet. 

Information from the most personal, intimate, painful, or embarrassing episodes of our lives is now ‘in the wild’. It will not be possible to put the genie back in the bottle.

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