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Comment by azemetre | Hacker News Reader

You need to publicly shame them on twitter. That is a massive breach likely happening to other users as well. HN has a decent audience but twitter has an enormous audience.

Tag some tech reporters as well for extra fun.

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I thought about that but I am no influencer type. The communication with Instacart makes me feel that they suspect I have stolen somebody’s credit card to make the purchase, and after they reopened my account I can see that person’s cell number and address and such, and I don’t know an easy way to go public without showing the proof, which is another person’s private information.

> I don’t know an easy way to go public without showing the proof, which is another person’s private information.

It might be worth sharing with a journalist; potentially the author of the linked article?

No! They would comply, post an apology and continue the same way. You need to sue them for data breaches and endangering personal info. Of course legislation has to come up for stuff like this. Best day for that would be yesterday.

You need a personal audience for that. Posting on Twitter with 10 followers at best isn’t likely to make it.

not with the right hashtag or mentions

Why don't you go ahead and do that, and then report back to us on your success.

Yea like all social media platforms these days you usually have to pay in one way or a not to promote a hash tag. I bet most of the popular hash tags you know of were sponsored at some point.

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