Tag: security
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The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Lessons from the Patreon Breach

The Ethics of Using Hacked Data: Lessons from the Patreon Breach Can data scientists ever justify using hacked data?This question became especially relevant after a major security breach at Patreon in 2015. What followed wasn’t just a technical failure, but a serious ethical dilemma—one that still matters today. In this post, I explore what happened,…