National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security
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New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available from its homepage until today.

  • BrikoXOPMEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    And that’s why privacy people are against age verification and other verification methods that store your personal data. Idiots like this or underpaid government employees are unqualified to protect it. And they can’t leak what they don’t have.

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      There’s a book I really like in which they have to kiss their devices since all other used biometrics are already publicly available… through breaches.