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Cyberabad cops nab man who stole personal info of 66.9 cr people in 24 states
- zeckalpha 4y ago66.9 crore is 669 million for those unfamiliar with the unit.
- v7engine 4y agoHow did he get all this data? Did he hack websites?
- harrymit907 4y agoMore than half the data there is available on Breached and other similar forums and telegram groups freely. These clueless cops do not know this and just have to make some headlines to keep the budget flowing.
- sciencesama 4y agoAny links of the websites you are referring to ?
- mnw21cam 4y agoFor reference, "cr" is an abbreviation for the Indian word crore, which is 10^7, so this is 669 million people.
- throw0101c 4y agoInteresting notation / digit grouping as well: > It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is equal to one hundred thousand, and is written as 1,00,000).[1] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of_separators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of... > In the Indian system, the next powers of ten are called one lakh, ten lakh, one crore, ten crore, one arab (or one hundred crore), and so on; there are new words for every second power of ten (10^(5 + 2n)): lakh (10^5), crore (10^7), arab (10^9), kharab (10^11), etc. In the Western system, the next powers of ten are called one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, one hundred million, one billion (short scale)/one thousand million (long scale), and so on; in the short scale, there are new words for every third power of ten (10^3n): million (10^6), billion (10^9), trillion (10^12), etc. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
- sva_ 4y ago> In the Western system, Surely they mean "in the English system". In German, we have "Milliarde" between "Millionen" and "Billionen", and so on. In fact, they will end on "-illion" if it's a power of 10^(6n) and on "-illiarde" if it's a power of 10^(6n+3).
- andreareina 4y agoc.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- midasuni 4y agoIn the olden days English used have billion as a million million. For international purposes (america) this “long scale” fall out of use, with he “short scale” being recommended in the U.K. since 1974
- chimeracoder 4y ago> For international purposes (america) this “long scale” fall out of use, with he “short scale” being recommended in the U.K. since 1974 I know a lot of people who didn't get that memo, because I still see the long scale with some regularity. That said, the short scale is much more common overall.
- masfuerte 4y agoWhere? I'm British and old and, apart from in reference books much older than me, I've never seen the long scale used in any context.
- chimeracoder 4y ago> Where? I'm British and old and, apart from in reference books much older than me, I've never seen the long scale used in any context. Vestiges of it pop up from time to time. It's not really something you can Google directly for, but as an indication, literally the second hit on Google for "thousand million" - a term that only exists due to the long scale, and which is obsolete in the short scale - is an article about a Brexit-related bus ad: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/brexit-bus-is-2000-million-a-real-number-or-should-it-be-2-billion-36629390.html https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/brexit-bus...
- unwind 4y agoThanks. Meta: the title should be changed, in my opinion.
- notRobot 4y agoCyberabad is a cool name.
- choxi 4y agoI was curious because it doesn’t sound like a typical Indian name, apparently it’s a nickname for Hyderabad because there’s a large tech industry there
- samarthr1 4y agoCorrection, it is a region of Hyderabad which plays host to a lot of tech... So the financial district, Gachibowli, hi tech city, madhapur and the other tech areas come under cyberabad limits.
- tianqi 4y agoIs Cyberabad the name of the place? What can people expect to happen in a place called cyber-bad?
- chsreekar 4y agoThe region is called Hyderabad. The tech township it hosts has been dubbed Cyberabad
- cubefox 4y agoI thought the headline sounded like from an 80s cyberpunk short story!
- antibasilisk 4y agothat sounds awesome
- phanimahesh 4y agoCyber-abad, not cyber-bad. Abad means place, a somewhat common suffix. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abad
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- vrc 4y agoHyderabad city (specifically the area called HITEC City) in Telangana is often called Cyberabad[0] because of all of the tech co’s there. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITEC_City https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITEC_City
- vijaybritto 4y agoI expect trouble for activists talking about it cause when Aadhar data was available for sale on the darknet the govt threatened to jail anyone publishing info about it https://www.moneylife.in/article/aadhaar-data-breach-largest-in-the-world-says-wefs-global-risk-report-and-avast/56384.html https://www.moneylife.in/article/aadhaar-data-breach-largest...
- bvsrinivasan 4y agoThe net number (669 million) looks wrong. India's population is around 1.4 billion, so this would mean a data leak of nearly 1 in 2 Indians. If we further remove children below 14 (30% of India) who are unlikely to have data of their own and others who are completely off any of the data leak sources, the number given here would mean everyone in India has had their data leaked! The data distribution given in the article seems to add to approximately 7 crores (70 million). I think there is a misplaced decimal somewhere. In all probability it is 6.69 crores (66.9 million). Still very significant, though.
- notimetorelax 4y agoThey show 21 crore from Uttar Pradesh. This state has enough people, but it’s almost everyone. So yeah, hard to believe the original statement.
- bvsrinivasan 4y agoThanks! I didn't read the data in the pictures, only read the text. Time for GPT4 I guess :-D As you said, this also looks wrong. Maybe double-counting? Same people or IDs getting leaked across multiple platforms?
- KennyBlanken 4y ago> India's population is around 1.4 billion 1.4b currently living people. Just because people pass away doesn't mean their data stops existing in government records. I'm not saying the figure is necessarily correct, just that your reason for dismissing it is faulty.
- plq 4y agoSo that's what he was wearing while waiting for the db dump to finish, I guess? Man, tech reporters are killing me sometimes.
- avi_vallarapu 4y agoInteresting to see the discussion going towards converting 66.9 cr to Millions. However, what is the type of data is my curiosity. Is this sensitive data such as PCI or some details such as : Names, Phone Number, Location etc. If it is sensitive data, how he got that data is the biggest worry. Hope there is enough clarity on the type of data.
- zeeshanmh215 4y agowould be interesting to see who was his clients.