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Brazilians exposed in massive data leak
Tuesday January 9, 2024. 03:37 PM , from BetaNews
Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a huge data leak which could potentially put the entire population of Brazil at risk. They uncovered a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance which contained more than 223 million records-worth of private data belonging to Brazilian individuals -- the country's current population is only around 217 million. Elasticsearch is a tool often used for the search, analysis, and visualization of large volumes of data. The cluster, stored on a cloud server, contained data with individual taxpayer numbers, full names, date of birth, sex, and Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPF) number. The 11-digit number identifies individual taxpayers… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2024/01/09/brazilians-exposed-in-massive-data-leak/
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