Cyberabad cops nab man who stole personal info of 66.9 cr people in 24 states

For reference, "cr" is an abbreviation for the Indian word crore, which is 10^7, so this is 669 million people.

I expect trouble for activists talking about it cause when Aadhar data was available for sale on the darknet the govt threatened to jail anyone publishing info about it<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moneylife.in&#x2F;article&#x2F;aadhaar-data-breach-largest-in-the-world-says-wefs-global-risk-report-and-avast&#x2F;56384.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moneylife.in&#x2F;article&#x2F;aadhaar-data-breach-largest...</a>

The net number (669 million) looks wrong. India&#x27;s population is around 1.4 billion, so this would mean a data leak of nearly 1 in 2 Indians. If we further remove children below 14 (30% of India) who are unlikely to have data of their own and others who are completely off any of the data leak sources, the number given here would mean everyone in India has had their data leaked!<p>The data distribution given in the article seems to add to approximately 7 crores (70 million). I think there is a misplaced decimal somewhere. In all probability it is 6.69 crores (66.9 million). Still very significant, though.

66.9 crore is 669 million for those unfamiliar with the unit.

Interesting to see the discussion going towards converting 66.9 cr to Millions.<p>However, what is the type of data is my curiosity. Is this sensitive data such as PCI or some details such as : Names, Phone Number, Location etc. If it is sensitive data, how he got that data is the biggest worry.<p>Hope there is enough clarity on the type of data.

Is Cyberabad the name of the place? What can people expect to happen in a place called cyber-bad?

Cyberabad is a cool name.

How did he get all this data? Did he hack websites?

So that&#x27;s what he was wearing while waiting for the db dump to finish, I guess?<p>Man, tech reporters are killing me sometimes.

would be interesting to see who was his clients.