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200 Million Chinese Resumes Leak In Huge Database Breach (thenextweb.com)
According to a report from HackenProof, a database containing resumes of over 200 million job seekers in China was exposed last month. "The leaked info included not just the name and working experience of people, but also their mobile phone number, email, marriage status, children, politics, height, weight, driver license, and literacy level as well," reports The Next Web. From the report: Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken.io and bug bounty platform HackenProof, found an unprotected instance of MongoDB containing these resumes on December 28. Diachenko found the resumes in the open database search engines Shodan and BinaryEdge. The 854GB database didn't have any password protection and was open to anyone to read.
Diachenko wasn't able to identify who generated the database or who owned it, but a now-defunct GitHub code repository featured a code that used an identical data structure to the leaked database. The database contained scraped data from multiple Chinese classified websites like bj.58.com. However, in a blog post, the website's spokesperson denied the leak. Interestingly, the database was taken down as soon as Diachenko posted about the database on Twitter. Sadly, the MongoDB log showed at least a dozen IP addresses that read the instance before it went off the grid.
Diachenko wasn't able to identify who generated the database or who owned it, but a now-defunct GitHub code repository featured a code that used an identical data structure to the leaked database. The database contained scraped data from multiple Chinese classified websites like bj.58.com. However, in a blog post, the website's spokesperson denied the leak. Interestingly, the database was taken down as soon as Diachenko posted about the database on Twitter. Sadly, the MongoDB log showed at least a dozen IP addresses that read the instance before it went off the grid.
in what job seekers divulge compared to the US.
"marriage status, children, politics, height, weight, driver license" I wonder where their government social scores are tied into this?
Was there any information relating to their social scores? That'd be an interesting leak.
"Please don't let me be in the database, please don't let me be in the database..." -Trump Jr.
Just for a little while please... I know they don't have much money, but with 200 million of them, there must be a few who will help the Nigerian prince...
That would be an incredible dataset for comparing education and skill set trends against age, location, career history and education history.
Mitch McConnell will handle it. Hey honey? /throat gurgling (unintelligible)
I was asked to review a Chinese person's resume. The personal details they provide is rather astounding by Western standards. Phrases like "attractive," "young," "single," and "appealing" would be huge red flags here in the US, but I was told it's acceptable for their market and culture.
I felt bad for people who couldn't truthfully advertise themselves as attractive, young, single, and appealing over there.
What a country.
Kriston
You might... wanna leave that off your resume.
It seems like whenever a story appears regarding an unprotected database being exposed on the web, inevitably it’s an instance of MongoDB. Why is that?
I mean, we’re not talking about a database exploit which inadvertently exposed the data... we’re talking about user error. So why are all these piss-poor admins running MongoDB?
#DeleteChrome
So rhetorically you think the default position is "don't like stupid people"? How is that, aren't you a Trump supporter? I'll have you know, SOME stupid people are very WELL LIKED. Certainly not Trump though.
But the implication that Trump is only disliked for being stupid... it's insulting, I'm going to avoid the question in front of the TV audience, Jeanine. Me, work for Russia? What, me worry? Mueller who?
He's disliked for being a fucking traitor. It's not just ineptitude or lack of reading. It's lack of character, lack of integrity. Not a damn person in the world believes Trump's word now.
It's not just that he's a retard who pretends to have written a book despite the actual author of said book trashing him publicly for being a liar. That's a grain on the beach here.
Stupid people go work for others and suffer the consequences. Smart people do for themselves what the rest can't.
YOU NO MESS WITH LO WANG.
Whomever the IT admins (network, systems, cloud, dev) were that facilitated this, I wonder if their resumes were in there. But mostly, I wonder if they'll update their resumes to reflect the more truthful facts regarding their lapse in proper security practices.
That's what Chinese are. The Chinese ARE KILLING THE RHINOS because of your tiny little cocks.
SO FUCKING PATHETIC.
So if my resume gets leaked I, umm... get extra job offers? Those hacking bastards!
You're thinking to small. Trump is hated because the middle-class finally figured out that he's the only man to fuck up the globalist / neo-feudalist movement that's been selling them out.
Keep pushing, and soon you'll WW3 where the liberal urban areas (cities) get nuked! You don't realize it, but is Trump supporters are trying to both save you from yourselves and us too.
The whole cock thing is a bit bullshit. If not, why wouldn't they use Viagra? It is easily available, cheap and works. The rhino horn dust is consumed in several Asian countries because it is difficult to get and expensive. This shows that the person using it is wealthy. Whether it works doesn't matter at all, but it needs to have some presumed function, as just demonstrating wealth for no reason is frowned upon.
Holy shit! I can't tell you how uninterested I am in this. I just can't even care.
I mean, why should anyone care that something intended to advertise a person for a job gets spread all over so that more people see it. It seems that the owner of the resume would see this as a positive.
Back to cat pictures. Toodles.
> Ah, yes, the good old Western supremacist view. Looking down on other cultures while celebrating your oh-so-superior one
That idea came from you, not from any of the posts up thread from here. I just want to point that out, you'll have to discuss your inferiority complex with your psychologist.
> Hey, quick quiz, who invented Jim Crow laws?
It's interesting that you picked a specific law instead of something more general, otherwise we could go back to things like the caste system which created permanent legal underclasses, or the Barbary slave trade. The word 'slave', for example, comes from 'Slav', you know, those people from the Baltic region who got enslaved a lot. The concept of slavery itself goes back much further, though.
> Who used nuclear weapons on civilian targets?
Why did you pick this, rather than using weapons of war on civilians in general? Or why not by death toll, or would that invite comparison to the brutality of other regimes and horrors like Holodomor? I think you have a naive view of war if you think that there's a clean separation between military and civilian targets or that either side in a total war would be so concerned. Did no civilians die in Pearl Harbor? Were the balloon bombs sent through the jet stream only aimed at military targets?
Surely the lesson here should be that war is hell and that we should stop waging it, no? Why do we need to decide whose ancestors were worse, and even if we did, why did you cheat with your standard of measurement as if nothing else horrible ever happened in this world? It's ironic, but the pure hell unleashed by that bomb has made at least a generation or two afraid to wage a war that would see it unleashed again, so at least there's some silver lining to that very dark cloud.
> When you point the finger at others, three other fingers are pointing back at you.
Then why did you point the first finger? The fact that you saw a finger pointed at you from those posts which did no such thing only makes you look guilty.
Why didn't they dump all of the data at once, and why resume now?
I hear there's a group out there that goes by the name "Inquiring Minds" and they want to know.