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Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum

Where did it all come from? 4.9m records were posted on a hacking forum – and the country only has an estimated population of 3.7m.

It was a top crooks’ market, with over 24,000 shops doing brisk business selling credentials for Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.

Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.

Necurs, one of the world’s biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide.

Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.

Crime doesn’t pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues.

The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.

The data dump apparently included PII for Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey.

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.