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.

There have been more than $20.9 billion in consumer losses tied to identity theft connected to four major breaches involving data broker firms.

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