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For me, the shocking part is not that someone selling such private data online. The really scary thing is the fact that such a doggy company with no privacy & n
by dis-sys 8y ago
For me, the shocking part is not that someone selling such private data online. The really scary thing is the fact that such a doggy company with no privacy & network security concepts whatsoever actually managed to collect private data from 130 million people in a few years.
btw, the database was not uploaded to github, some moronic programmer hard coded the url/username/password of their database into a source file and uploaded that to github. As expected, the database can easily be accessed from the internet and more than 100G of data was stolen without being noticed.
- fosco 8y agoAgreed. compared to exactis and and experian leaks though, I am wondering what makes this data valuable? (pardon my ignorance) Edit: appears you answered in another thread. > this dataset contains the unique national ID, home address, cell phone number, bank card number of 130 million Chinese. you also get to know who they shared a hotel room with. it is _not_ common.