The Brazilian blog "Tecnoblog" has the full details here[1], with a list of all the information allegedly included in this data. If they are correct that's pretty much everything about everybody... I mean personal info (like addresses and phones, family, education, employer), financial info (like bank accounts, salary, credit score, creditors, bounced checks, whether receiving government assistance), other background info... for some entries (over a million) there even mugshots!<p>[1] <a href="https://tecnoblog.net/404838/exclusivo-vazamento-que-expos-220-milhoes-de-brasileiros-e-pior-do-que-se-pensava/" rel="nofollow">https://tecnoblog.net/404838/exclusivo-vazamento-que-expos-2...</a>
Even tough it's sound pretty bad and big (and it is), this is not new to brazilians. It's a known thing that you can buy DVDs (yes, DVDs) with personal data from millions of Brazilians customers on the streets of Sao Paulo. Daylight market (called Camelo's).<p>There was some news articles about it a few years ago. Even the former president data was there. Social Security Number (not as secret as it is in the US and Canada), address, name, phone number. Even some family relations. It was pretty cheap.
Man, why can't we get some useful data leaks? Like all the records from companies incorporated in DE, or all the tax records from companies and rich people or another one from offshore account havens.
<a href="https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almost-all-brazilians/" rel="nofollow">https://www.somagnews.com/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almos...</a> links to the source of the snippet<p>> According to the experts, who use artificial intelligence techniques to identify malicious links and fake news, the leaked data contains detailed information on 104 million vehicles and about 40 million companies, potentially vulnerable to 220 million people.
I don't see how it can be new. When I lived some years in Brazil (around 1999-2001), and you could buy at a specific street in Sao Paulo, a CD with all the taxes information from every brazilian citizen.
> vulnerable to 220 million people.<p>In a country with 207 million people. This means that even the dead can't rest in peace.<p>On the bright side, we'll not have any data leaks anymore because there will be no more secrets to leak. :)
We should literally start making a parody of this article, but on our blog:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_To_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_To_Prevent_This,%27_...</a><p>EDIT: I wrote it<p><a href="https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/25/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-industry-where-this-regularly-happens/" rel="nofollow">https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/25/no-way-to-prevent-this-says...</a>
> “No, we have bigger problems than that to worry about.”<p>Pretty much that. In the "Maslow's pyramid of government-related needs", the doxxing is near the top. People are much more worried with stuff like not dying to covid, not being kidnapped, not dying in traffic, paying the dreaded Boletos (bills), etc. Internet doxxing is dwarfed by the more urgent needs. Brazilians are also sure that exactly zero things are going to be done about these leaks. Some government representative is going to say "we're going to investigate" and that's as much as we're going to get.<p>I would love to be wrong here, by the way.
Another month another set of news that can be solved by NOT storing all the data in one place by one company. But for that we need better software. This article is literally like The Onion article about guns. Maybe we should put it with names changed every few months:<p><a href="https://qbix.com/blog" rel="nofollow">https://qbix.com/blog</a>
I would argue that if anything, in our current world of privacy and anonymity-indifferent lawyers, regulators, policy makers, corporate heads and most members of the general public, things like this and the hackers behind them perform a sort of obscene public service in a way: They make everyone at least somewhat leery about trends towards so much of our private lives falling into too many databases, especially when said data is highly personal, financial, medical or location-based (and thus especially compromising in certain contexts)<p>The reason why? While lawmakers, politicians and corporate heads couldn't give less of a shit about the average joe's privacy, they know that it's increasingly difficult even for them and their own families to stay private from too-pervasive, intrusive data collection, and they also now see ever more often just how near impossible it is to make said data stay secure from mass public leaks. Oops... Their own "optimization" obsessed nosiness maybe biting them back bit by bit.<p>It would be perversely amusing to see the head of some bullshit ad tracking firm, or bottom-feeding user data reseller, or the head of a snooping social network have their own dirty laundry leaked all over the web for all to see.
Another one?<p>Didn't this also happen last month? (<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians-exposed-online-via-website-source-code/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians...</a>)
Articles about breaches rarely if ever contain a link to the actual data. I'm left trusting the journalist, who may or may not be tech literate. Even a random sampling of the records would be more illustrative than anything these bloggers post about.
Url changed from <a href="https://www.databreaches.net/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-almost-all-brazilians/" rel="nofollow">https://www.databreaches.net/giant-leak-exposes-data-from-al...</a>, which points to this.
I'm so proud of my country, we just got the goal, time to double it.<p>And If you ask the politicians to improve security, they will probably say "put 2 more security guard outside the building".