Assuming your tea leaf reading is correct, that particular third party would not even exist in its current form without 'data broker ecosystem'. It is, genuinely, the original sin.
I get that data brokers and big tech are a much sexier topic, but this breach - like so many of the most pressing threats to our privacy - are mundane shortages of competence and giving-a-shit in the IT activities of boring old organizations.
<< I get that data brokers and big tech are a much sexier topic, but this breach - like so many of the most pressing threats to our privacy - are mundane shortages of competence and giving-a-shit in the IT activities of boring old organizations.
I posit that both could be true at the same time.