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.

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> 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.