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A quarter of a billion people, located in seven countries around the world, were at risk of identity theft, wire fraud, phishing, social engineering, and other forms of cybercrime due to a collection of misconfigured databases leaking all sorts of personal information.
Security researchers at Cybernews found three servers holding a huge tranche of data on people in seven countries
Names, ID numbers, and more, were being leaked to the public
The archives are now locked down
The people are apparently from Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, and Canada, with those in the first three hit particularly badly, as they lost “full-spectrum” data.
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