An entire state's population (Maine) just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack

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5. I am wearily bracing myself for this

I am not sure how to prepare beyond a kind of vigilance that comes from kinda expecting more of this sort of stuff going forward. I have prepared somewhat in case of the worst.

I hope I personally am never anywhere this happens - it would be the bloody cherry on top of the shitcake that was this last decade. I am wondering when (much like the pandemic), something like this takes down everything across the globe. I have to imagine that any halfway non-lousy security applications are working on it. Or it will be like scrambling for vaccines (because we refuse to make our food production systems less awful whether it is wet markets or factory farms) all over again re: re anonymising* and protecting data.

*: I assume that is the reverse of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification