Is it 1 billion in long scale or small scale?
Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
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#12In 2018 I saw a local branch office were using Windows XP and an old Internet Explorer. You cannot expect that to be secure. This does not surprise me at all.
XP is very common on airports in China too.
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And not receive those sweet dollars?
I am sorry sir, I will not.
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#15This has to be the largest leak of personal information yet, right?
Facebook leaked much more couple years ago. Somehow everyone has forget that.
Some example news: https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-...
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#16Apparently there was a "blogpost" of a developer showing of their code, where they accidentally leaked access tokens in a piece of commented code: https://archive.ph/mP3bh
This is completely unverified though, so take it with a grain of salt.
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#17What do we do now? It seems the majority of people on the planet now have had some of their data leaked. Or are becoming ever more entangled with government and corporate systems which control and peddle their information as they see fit. Is it ultimately a big nothing burger, or is this some singularity we are passing through?
The previous big case I remember was linkedin leak with 700M users:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674393
At this point I've basically accepted that all my info will be found on sites like fastpeoplesearch.com and that anything I tell any company (or I guess in this case, govt too) will eventually be leaked, correlated, and used against me.
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#18What do we do now? It seems the majority of people on the planet now have had some of their data leaked. Or are becoming ever more entangled with government and corporate systems which control and peddle their information as they see fit. Is it ultimately a big nothing burger, or is this some singularity we are passing through?
In history what have databases of people and state actor interests usually led to if any events are similar?
IIRC when Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, one of the first things the SS did was to send representatives to the local churches.
In Denmark, every child was (I’m not sure if they still are actually?) registered at birth by the local parish in so called “church books”.
With these “databases” in hand, the SS had a neat list of all names, and the approximate location of peoples homes.
Those lists were used to identify and prosecute jews.
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#19Apparently there was a "blogpost" of a developer showing of their code, where they accidentally leaked access tokens in a piece of commented code: https://archive.ph/mP3bh This is completely unverified though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Binance CEO confirmed this version: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1543905416748359680
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Governments have been collecting (and poorly securing) this sort of information and more for most of recorded history. It's not to say that I like it, or would work for somewhere like Meta or the like, but plenty of these major data leaks have been from places that used to collect and store physical data bases of this stuff since before most of us were alive.
I'm talking calmly about this because people have been screaming in my ear about it for 20 years, and I listened. And then I lived my life around the fact that this was going to be happening whether you scream yourself hoarse or not, at least for now.