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The Gini Foundation has invested tremendous time and resources into building the nonprofit Gini Platform. As a result, we are very serious about preventing various malefactors from hurting the integrity of the Gini Network and ecosystem. Additionally, we can't risk creating unnecessary dependencies on for-profit corporations and politically motivated governments because they may not always have our stakeholders' best interests at heart. Thus, to preserve the integrity of the Gini ecosystem, we have created the GiniVerify Anonymous Decentralized Attestation Service (aka, "GiniVerify Service" or "Gini Self-Sovereign ID Service").

The GiniVerify Service Eliminates the Risk of Privacy Breaches. Based on many of the same cryptographically secure components that we have built for the decentralized Gini BlockGrid, the GiniVerify Service helps stakeholders in the Gini ecosystem and other entities outside the ecosystem to anonymously prove certain pieces of information about themselves without disclosing their actual identity to any third-parties. This prevents anybody (including the Gini Foundation) from seeing or storing your personally identifiable information. Thus, even if there was a hack or government subpoena of the Gini Foundation's servers, there would be no risk whatsoever of any unauthorized disclosure.

How Does the GiniVerify Service Work? When Gini stakeholders install their Gini Account Center Software (see the Gini homepage for a video demo), the software creates an anonymous, cryptographically secure Gini currency account and a corresponding private encryption key, which is very easy to use with the Gini software. Like Bitcoin, the Gini private key enables Gini stakeholders to anonymously send/receive Gini currency, but unlike Bitcoin, the Gini private key also enables you to encrypt all your private information within the anonymous and decentralized GiniVerify Service. This enables you to authorize specific third-parties to verify certain things that you want them to know about you without allowing them to see any of your private information. This is a big deal for several reasons.

The Way ID Verification Typically Works is Terrible for Your Privacy. For example, when you go to a restaurant to have cocktails, they legitimately need to verify that you are old enough to drink alcohol, but they do not need to see all the private information on your ID card (e.g., your home address, ID#, actual birth date, etc.). What if there was a way to prove that you are old enough to drink without showing anybody your ID card? There is and this is what the GiniVerify Service does.

Credit Bureaus Are Catastrophically Bad for Humanity. It's far worse than many people realize. In fact, the cumulative number of personal records stolen so far is at least 10 billion (see the partial list at the end of this article) and the cumulative cost to the global economy is approaching $8 trillion.

The GiniVerify Service is the Solution. We originally built the GiniVerify Service to enable Gini stakeholders to anonymously prove that they are real humans on the Gini Network to prevent abuse of the Gini Value Streams System. Then we realized that the GiniVerify Service can be used by many people outside the Gini ecosystem, too. In fact, any entity that wants to protect their privacy, control their own online identity, while still being able to prove certain pieces of information about themselves to other third-parties may find the GiniVerify Service useful.

Partial List of Data Breaches & Nearly 10 Billion Stolen Records

If you have interacted with any of the organizations below during the past 10 years, there is a ~99.9999% probability that your personal information has been stolen by hackers. This is why the anonymous GiniVerify Service is so important for the Gini ecosystem and beyond.

 
Entity Year Records
Yahoo 2013 3,000,000,000
First American Corporation 2019 885,000,000
Facebook 2019 540,000,000
Marriott International 2018 500,000,000
Yahoo 2014 500,000,000
Friend Finder Networks 2016 412,214,295
Truecaller 2019 299,055,819
Nasdaq & 7-Eleven 2012 160,000,000
Adobe Systems 2013 152,000,000
Under Armour 2018 150,000,000
eBay 2014 145,000,000
Equifax 2017 143,000,000
Canva 2019 140,000,000
Heartland 2009 130,000,000
Target Corporation 2013 110,000,000
Capital One 2019 106,000,000
Justdial 2019 100,000,000
Quora 2018 100,000,000
Rambler.ru 2012 98,167,935
TK / TJ Maxx 2007 94,000,000
MyHeritage 2018 92,283,889
AOL 2004 92,000,000
Anthem Inc. 2015 80,000,000
Sony PlayStation Network 2011 77,000,000
JP Morgan Chase 2014 76,000,000
U.S. Military veterans records 2009 76,000,000
Dropbox 2012 68,648,009
Tumblr 2013 65,469,298
United States Postal Service 2018 60,000,000
Uber 2017 57,000,000
Home Depot 2014 56,000,000
Philippines Commission on Elections 2016 55,000,000
Evernote 2013 50,000,000
Facebook 2018 50,000,000
Living Social 2013 50,000,000
Weebly 2016 43,430,316
CardSystems Solutions Inc. (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover) 2005 40,000,000
Steam 2011 35,000,000
Ashley Madison 2015 32,000,000
RockYou! 2009 32,000,000
Taringa! 2017 28,722,877
HauteLook 2018 28,517,244
Tianya Club 2011 28,000,000
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs 2006 26,500,000
Ticketfly (subsidiary of Eventbrite) 2018 26,151,608
UK Revenue & Customs 2007 25,000,000
Sony Online Entertainment 2011 24,600,000
Zappos 2012 24,000,000
Yahoo Japan 2013 22,000,000
US Office of Personnel Management 2015 21,500,000
AOL 2006 20,000,000
Korea Credit Bureau 2014 20,000,000
Taobao 2016 20,000,000
Auction.co.kr 2008 18,000,000
T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom 2006 17,000,000
Experian - T-Mobile US 2015 15,000,000
Blizzard Entertainment 2012 14,000,000
Nexon Korea Corp 2011 13,200,000
The Bank of New York Mellon 2008 12,500,000
Apple, Inc./BlueToad 2012 12,367,232
Quest Diagnostics 2019 11,900,000
GS Caltex 2008 11,100,000
Premera 2015 11,000,000
Prestige Software, based in Spain 2020 10,000,000
Chinese gaming websites (three: Duowan, 7K7K, 178.com) 2011 10,000,000
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield 2015 10,000,000
Cathay Pacific Airways 2018 9,400,000
Greek government 2012 9,000,000
KT Corporation 2012 8,700,000
Dai Nippon Printing 2007 8,637,405
Fidelity National Information Services 2007 8,500,000
NHS 2011 8,300,000
Virginia Department of Health 2009 8,257,378
Data Processors International (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover) 2008 8,000,000
Gamigo 2012 8,000,000
LinkedIn, eHarmony, Last.fm 2012 8,000,000
Blank Media Games 2018 7,633,234
Global Payments 2012 7,000,000
StockX 2019 6,800,000
Office of the Texas Attorney General 2012 6,500,000
South Carolina Government 2012 6,400,000
TD Ameritrade 2007 6,300,000
Xat.com 2015 6,054,459
China Software Developer Network 2011 6,000,000
Facebook 2013 6,000,000
Ministry of Education (Chile) 2008 6,000,000
CheckFree Corporation 2009 5,000,000
Gmail 2014 5,000,000
VTech 2015 5,000,000
Tricare 2011 4,901,432
SnapChat 2013 4,700,000
Scottrade 2015 4,600,000
Community Health Systems 2014 4,500,000
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica 2015 4,500,000
Sutter Medical Center 2011 4,243,434
Hannaford Brothers Supermarket Chain 2007 4,200,000
Advocate Medical Group 2013 4,000,000
KDDI 2006 4,000,000
Norwegian Tax Administration 2008 3,950,000
Citigroup 2005 3,900,000
Medical Informatics Engineering 2015 3,900,000
State of Texas 2011 3,500,000
Educational Credit Management Corporation 2010 3,300,000
UK Driving Standards Agency 2007 3,000,000
Iranian banks (three: Saderat, Eghtesad Novin, and Saman) 2012 3,000,000
Michaels 2014 3,000,000
Desjardins 2019 2,900,000
Countrywide Financial Corp 2006 2,600,000
JP Morgan Chase 2010 2,600,000
Countrywide Financial Corp 2011 2,500,000
Syrian government (Syria Files) 2012 2,434,899
AOL 2014 2,400,000
Betfair 2010 2,300,000
Patreon 2015 2,300,000
21st Century Oncology 2016 2,200,000
University of Utah Hospital & Clinics 2008 2,200,000
University of Miami 2008 2,100,000
Earl Enterprises 2018-2019 2,000,000
Ubuntu 2013 2,000,000
Vodafone 2013 2,000,000
Bell Canada 2017 1,900,000
Health Net — IBM 2011 1,900,000
New York State Electric & Gas 2012 1,800,000
New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. 2010 1,700,000
UK Ministry of Defence 2008 1,700,000
Jefferson County, West Virginia 2008 1,600,000
Monster.com 2007 1,600,000
Facebook 2019 1,500,000
Gawker 2010 1,500,000
KM.RU 2016 1,500,000
Nival Networks 2016 1,500,000
RBS Worldpay 2008 1,500,000
SingHealth 2018 1,500,000
Verizon Communications 2016 1,500,000
DSW Inc. 2005 1,400,000
Walmart 2015 1,300,000
Sega 2011 1,290,755
Washington Post 2011 1,270,000
AvMed, Inc. 2009 1,220,000
Bank of America 2005 1,200,000
CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield - Maryland 2015 1,100,000
Neiman Marcus 2014 1,100,000
Nemours Foundation 2011 1,055,489
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 2009 1,023,209
Compass Bank 2007 1,000,000
Drupal 2013 1,000,000
Dun & Bradstreet 2013 1,000,000
Kroll Background America 2013 1,000,000
LexisNexis 2014 1,000,000
Sony Pictures 2011 1,000,000
Stratfor 2011 935,000
Orbitz 2018 880,000
MacRumors.com 2014 860,000
Health Sciences Authority(Singapore) 2019 808,000
California Department of Child Support Services 2012 800,000
Gap Inc. 2007 800,000
South Shore Hospital, Massachusetts 2010 800,000
US Medicaid 2012 780,000
Ohio State University 2010 760,000
Internal Revenue Service 2015 720,000
Domino's Pizza (France) 2014 600,000
Network Solutions 2009 573,000
Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program 2009 531,400
Puerto Rico Department of Health 2010 515,000
Eisenhower Medical Center 2011 514,330
Google Plus 2018 500,000
Health Net 2009 500,000
Scribd 2013 500,000
Slack 2015 500,000
Yahoo! Voices 2012 450,000
Formspring 2012 420,000
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 2010 400,000
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System 2011 400,000
Triple-S Salud, Inc. 2010 398,000
U.S. Army 2010 392,000
British Airways 2018 380,000
Citigroup 2011 360,083
Affinity Health Plan, Inc. 2009 344,579
Emory Healthcare 2012 315,000
Ancestry.com 2015 300,000
Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants 2011 300,000
University of Maryland, College Park 2014 300,000
Honda Canada 2011 283,000
Apple 2013 275,000
TD Bank 2012 260,000
U.S. government (United States diplomatic cables leak) 2010 260,000
Embassy Cables 2010 251,000
Bailey's Inc. 2015 250,000
Twitter 2013 250,000
Nintendo 2013 240,000
Seacoast Radiology, PA 2010 231,400
Massachusetts Government 2011 210,000
Ameritrade 2005 200,000
Bethesda Game Studios 2011 200,000
Hewlett Packard 2006 200,000
Restaurant Depot 2011 200,000
Emergency Healthcare Physicians, Ltd. 2010 180,111
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 2011 180,000
Accendo Insurance Co. 2011 175,350
TerraCom & YourTel 2013 170,000
Militarysingles.com 2012 163,792
City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust 2007 160,000
University of California, Berkeley 2009 160,000
Washington State court system 2013 160,000
Ankle & Foot Center of Tampa Bay, Inc. 2010 156,000
Citigroup 2013 150,000
National Guard of the United States 2009 131,000
Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center 2010 130,495
Automatic Data Processing 2005 125,000
Kirkwood Community College 2013 125,000
Popsugar 2018 123,857
U.S. law enforcement (70 different agencies) 2011 123,461
AT&T 2010 114,000
AT&T 2008 113,000
Central Hudson Gas & Electric 2013 110,000
Colorado government 2010 105,470
Memorial Healthcare System 2011 102,153
Bell Canada 2018 100,000
Crescent Health Inc., Walgreens 2013 100,000
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice 2013 100,000
Westpac 2019 98,000
Starbucks 2008 97,000
Apple Health Medicaid 2016 91,000
BMO and Simplii 2018 90,000
Texas Lottery 2007 89,000
UK Home Office 2008 84,000
University of California, Berkeley 2016 80,000
Mozilla 2014 76,000
AerServ (subsidiary of InMobi) 2018 75,000
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2018 75,000
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 2011 73,000
Stanford University 2008 72,000
U.S. Department of Defense 2009 72,000
University of Central Florida 2016 63,000
Writerspace.com 2011 62,000
Central Coast Credit Union 2016 60,000
New York Taxis 2014 52,000
Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (UK) 2008 50,500
Uber 2014 50,000
U.S. Army 2011 50,000
Yale University 2010 43,000
Cox Communications 2016 40,000
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 2011 34,000
US Department of Homeland Security 2016 30,000
Grozio Chirurgija 2017 25,000
Air Canada 2018 20,000
Democratic National Committee 2016 19,252
South Africa police 2013 16,000
Ministry of Health (Singapore) 2019 14,200
Inuvik hospital 2016 6,700
Total Records Hacked 9,754,113,349

See the complete list here.


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