Another one? Didn't this also happen last month? ( https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians... )
Brazilian here. Same leak. New info suggest that the files contained far more info than previously thought.
Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians
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#22Has anyone calculated at the current rate of leaks how long would it take for every human on earth to be in some of these lists?
I treat my face, name, birthday and numbers as open data. Maybe companies should stop using these things for verification and start allowing people to use cryptography more efficiently.
Companies? How about your government? I have a coworker who had returns filed against them by someone in prison! If that does not startle people how about that in some states absentee votes are merely verified against a signature on file.
What we need is a means that others can be sure it really is us and we can sure that actions we have taken are credited to us and those we did not are not.
In effect we will need a system by which we have instant notification; similar to how some CC providers mail or text you each transaction; and historical tracking so that we can prove when we did or did not.
However there are not many unique methods to physically identify people short of dna transfer. I know that people bring up Minority Report whenever facial recognition comes up but that wasn't the tech they used, they used iris recognition.
So we break down each action and assign a value to how secure and verified it must be and work our way up from there. Similar to how self driving cars are defined, on a level of one to five how secure must an action be before its accepted
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#23Another one? Didn't this also happen last month? ( https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians... )
Yep, another one. This time it's from a Credit bureau.
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#24https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almos... links to the source of the snippet > According to the experts, who use artificial intelligence techniques to identify malicious links and fake news, the leaked data contains detailed information on 104 million vehicles and about 40 million companies, potentially vulnerable to 220 million people.
Thanks, finally somebody telling what data is on the leak.
> Information on the more than 104 million vehicles reveals important details, such as chassis number, license plate, municipality, color, make, model, year of manufacture, engine capacity and even the type of fuel used. In the case of legal entities, the following were leaked: CNPJ, corporate name, trade name and date of foundation.
Every piece of information on this list is either plainly visible (for cars) or published by the government.
The article talks about data of real people (not companies), but doesn't say what leaked about them.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That won't happen until companies are held liable for damages caused by inadequate authentication processes. If a bank gives a credit card to someone who says they're me, based on only on my SSN, I don't see why that should be my problem. It's between the bank and whomever they gave the card to. If they don't know who they actually gave it, well then it sounds like they need to improve their process. But it becomes m…
Everyone has cameras. How a photo of yourself with thumbs up isn’t required is beyond me. It’s extremely easy, and would cut down on a lot of fraud.
Which would mean you're constantly sending a photo of yourself with your thumbs up to people, and it becomes trivial to fake.
I guess it could be "we need a selfie video of you reading this 6 digit number aloud".
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#26https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almos... links to the source of the snippet > According to the experts, who use artificial intelligence techniques to identify malicious links and fake news, the leaked data contains detailed information on 104 million vehicles and about 40 million companies, potentially vulnerable to 220 million people.
Thanks, finally somebody telling what data is on the leak. > Information on the more than 104 million vehicles reveals important details, such as chassis number, license plate, municipality, color, make, model, year of manufacture, engine capacity and even the type of fuel used. In the case of legal entities, the following were leaked: CNPJ, corporate name, trade name and date of foundation. Every piece of informatio…
This link [0] may have the information you are looking for.
The link above seems to be from an unrelated breach, the one discussed in the OP affects pretty much everything, not even your LinkedIn profile managed to escape.
[0]: https://tecnoblog.net/404838/exclusivo-vazamento-que-expos-2...
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#27https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almos... links to the source of the snippet > According to the experts, who use artificial intelligence techniques to identify malicious links and fake news, the leaked data contains detailed information on 104 million vehicles and about 40 million companies, potentially vulnerable to 220 million people.
Thanks, finally somebody telling what data is on the leak. > Information on the more than 104 million vehicles reveals important details, such as chassis number, license plate, municipality, color, make, model, year of manufacture, engine capacity and even the type of fuel used. In the case of legal entities, the following were leaked: CNPJ, corporate name, trade name and date of foundation. Every piece of informatio…
> The article talks about data of real people (not companies), but doesn't say what leaked about them.
Personal data (CPF, Birth day and so on), credit scores, social class, acquisitive power, and other informations that a company specialised in credit score have. (the leak is probably from a credit score company).
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#28> “No, we have bigger problems than that to worry about.” Pretty much that. In the "Maslow's pyramid of government-related needs", the doxxing is near the top. People are much more worried with stuff like not dying to covid, not being kidnapped, not dying in traffic, paying the dreaded Boletos (bills), etc. Internet doxxing is dwarfed by the more urgent needs. Brazilians are also sure that exactly zero things are goi…
This says that it leaked Brazilians' name & CPF numbers.
CPF being the number that people give to every random shopkeeper to enter that tax lottery. So, it's... not exactly a big secret. To do most official-type things you have to go down to the cartório with your actual ID, not just enter the number.
Heck, I've been to places where you had to use one to use the free wifi. Granted, in that particular case, it didn't care if you used someone else's. I wouldn't be surprised if that was also true, elsewhere, honestly.
I'm sure someone will find ways to misuse this but Brazil has bigger problems. Also, this doesn't seem to be a leak of government data, it looks like it came from Serasa Experian or one of its contractors.
So yeah, I tend to agree with you. If the government does something, it will probably be like that law posted on every elevator warning you to check that there's an actual elevator there, instead of just walking into the empty shaft. For those curious, that'd be lei estadual n^o 9.502 de 11/03/1997 - https://www.al.sp.gov.br/norma/?id=9419
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#29Another month another set of news that can be solved by NOT storing all the data in one place by one company. But for that we need better software. This article is literally like The Onion article about guns. Maybe we should put it with names changed every few months:
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#30> vulnerable to 220 million people.
In a country with 207 million people. This means that even the dead can't rest in peace.
On the bright side, we'll not have any data leaks anymore because there will be no more secrets to leak. :)