Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records

Just read up on title insurance because I didn’t know what it actually was.

Turns out it’s a necessary thing due to the US having a stupid and lazily built leagal framework for real estate titles that appears to be designed to generate lawsuits as there’s no governmental authority that keeps track of conclusive evidence as to who owns what land.

Seems arcane and easily fixable with things like databases and computers.

If done correctly.

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