Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum

Post by ricochet11 » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 12:36 PM UTC

MadsRC wrote: post #18

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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 ident…

Post by WilTimSon » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 12:42 PM UTC

keewee7 wrote: post #24

The Shanghai police has a unique role in China and abroad. For example the Shanghai police is tasked with spreading pro-CCP propaganda globally on platforms like twitter and Facebook. There was an HN post about this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654137 Someone posted a comment explaining a little more about Shanghai's special relationship with the CCP/PLA: >Shanghai is a city with a unique…

Post by derwiki » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 12:42 PM UTC

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mvdwoord wrote: post #3

What 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?

It is both. It is huge, I'd say it's absolutely the latter. but I can't think of a single thing anyone can do about any of it at this point, which also makes it the former.

Post by krageon » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 12:51 PM UTC

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Starting today, this will be known as "Shanghai'd credentials" and be reason #1 why we use ephemeral credentials (e.g. AWS STS/SSO) rather than static credentials (e.g. IAM Users)

I never heard about "ephemeral credentials" before your post. I have some Googling to do!

Post by mvdwoord » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 12:57 PM UTC

Natfan wrote: post #32

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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 ident…

"Fun" fact: It was IBM who helped tabulate data from the 1933 national census, which was then used to identify hundreds of thousands more Jews than would have been found by the Nazi party without their efforts. "Machine-tabulated census data greatly expanded the estimated number of Jews in Germany by identifying individuals with only one or a few Jewish ancestors. Previous estimates of 400,000 to 600,000 were abandon…