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2020-01-09 | Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why? • The Register
'You would think a company trafficking in personal records would care a bit more about being able to be reached. ', "It's a perfect illustration that not only is this sort of personal information in circulation, but it's also in the hands of foreign adversaries.", "The repository's contents are likely scraped from public records, though together provide rather detailed profiles on tens of millions of folks in America."
'Basically, CheckPeople.com has done the hard work of aggregating public personal records, and this exposed NoSQL database makes that info even easier to crawl and process. '
'He told us he found the 22GB database exposed on the internet, including metadata that links the collection to CheckPeople.com. '
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https://archive.ph/wip/grzfz :
'You would think a company trafficking in personal records would care a bit more about being able to be reached. ', "It's a perfect illustration that not only is this sort of personal information in circulation, but it's also in the hands of foreign adversaries.", "The repository's contents are likely scraped from public records, though together provide rather detailed profiles on tens of millions of folks in America."
'Basically, CheckPeople.com has done the hard work of aggregating public personal records, and this exposed NoSQL database makes that info even easier to crawl and process. '
'He told us he found the 22GB database exposed on the internet, including metadata that links the collection to CheckPeople.com. '
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