Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

In retrospect, it would have been interesting to have a bunch of accounts each containing a unique "map trap", at all of the larger services. Then years later, when the aggregator/broker guys get hacked/sold/leaked, you'd have some picture of the genealogy involved.

Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

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Post by dudus » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

4ad wrote: post #2

Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How?

They list 2 companies as owners of the data in the article. I guess there would be a good place. I'd love to do that but I'm not on the eu.

But the article says that's possible the actual leak comes from a customer or former customer of these companies and the actual ownership is so far a mistery.

Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

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Post by 4ad » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #5

4ad wrote: post #2

Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How?

>Can I do a GDPR request for the data about myself? How? And send it where? It's unclear who owns this server

People Data Labs?

Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

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Post by retSava » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

> In order to test whether or not the data belonged to PDL, we created a free account on their website which provides users with 1,000 free people lookups per month.

Well that's very generous of them. Now I know what I'm gonna do next.

Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

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Post by greyfox » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #3

This is all scrapped public social media data. No credentials or govt information. It's very easy to download or buy this data legally.

are you sure? how did you come to that conclusion. thanks for the info though, very glad to hear it.