There’s something deeply unsettling about reading that a former government employee walked out of the Social Security Administration with the personal data of 500 million Americans on a thumb drive. Not because data breaches are new—we’ve all received those “your information may have been compromised” emails more times than we can count—but because this wasn’t a sophisticated hack or a system vulnerability. This was someone just… taking it. With apparent blessing from above and an expectation of a presidential pardon if caught.