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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
- Full names
- Addresses
- Post codes
- Dates of birth
- National IDs
- Phone numbers *Genders
- Email addresses
- Telco metadata
- Breach status and social profile annotations
Good luck everyone.
Misleading. Some researchers found an unsecured database, contacted the owners, and they secured it. There is no evidence of the data actually being leaked.
It’s not misleading. A database of personally identifiable information being exposed on the internet is a data leak. Personally identifiable information is legally required to be protected, while an exposed database on the internet is about as far from ‘protected’ as you can get.
The article and title make no claim to active selling or known exploitation of the data, but to write this off as nothing would be a mistake. Are you sure that only the Cybernews team found it?
We don’t know how long it was exposed for prior to it being discovered on the 11th - it might’ve been that day, it might’ve been a few months.