Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered...
by healsjnr1 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:00AM
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This assumes it was incompetence and not done intentionally.
My understanding is neither company is owning this data set and there is an assumption that it is a third company that has either legally or illegally obtained the data and is using it for their own services.
Another option is that the data was exfiltrated by a loose group of people who wanted this to be freely available on a random ip. Know the ip, get sick access to a trove of PII. No logins, no accounts, no trace.
My understanding is neither company is owning this data set and there is an assumption that it is a third company that has either legally or illegally obtained the data and is using it for their own services.
Another option is that the data was exfiltrated by a loose group of people who wanted this to be freely available on a random ip. Know the ip, get sick access to a trove of PII. No logins, no accounts, no trace.
Welcome to the early 90s internet.