Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians

Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

rutthenut wrote: post #126

mschuster91 wrote: post #122

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> Every piece of information on this list is either plainly visible (for cars) Nope, engine capacity, fuel type and year of manufacture are generally not visible on a car; the VIN is also not always publicly visible (in Europe, I don't know how the regulations are in Brazil). What makes this database dangerous is its value for criminals in aggregated form... it's enough data to forge a car title, and assuming that th…

> the VIN is also not always publicly visible (in Europe VIN is visible in the windscreen on cars. In UK at least,

Post by guiambros » Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 1:23 AM UTC

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I've been doing this for exact 20 years this week. I always use a unique address for each site (pretty easy; I just use a wildcard domain). Pretty much everything has been leaked: most retailers, software companies, all phpBB forums, wordpress blogs, Experian, Amazon (3P Sellers, not AMZN itself), Dropbox, LinkedIn. The list goes on and on. Notable exceptions: Google, Microsoft, Apple, IRS. These days is a lot harder…

A better option than a wildcard domain with spam filtering is a server where there is zero spam filtering and each unique address goes to a unique folder. Then you have much more opportunity to detect leaks to spammers.