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Chinese HR Firms Have Leaked Over 590 Million Resumes Via Open Databases (zdnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the job-openings dept.

An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Chinese companies have leaked a whopping 590 million resumes in the first three months of the year, ZDNet has learned from multiple security researchers. Most of the resume leaks have occurred because of poorly secured MongoDB databases and ElasticSearch servers that have been left exposed online without a password, or have ended up online following unexpected firewall errors.

Over the past few months, and especially over the last few weeks, ZDNet has received several tips about exposed servers that --when investigated-- belonged to Chinese HR-focused companies. From tiny firms exposing a handful of CVs to professional executive head-hunting firms, they've all leaked their customers' details, in one form or another... Counting all, we have 590.497 million resumes that have leaked from Chinese companies over the past three months, a worrying sign that Chinese HR companies are not taking the security of their servers seriously. The article points out that the resumes include personal information including phone numbers, home addresses, family and marital status, and in some cases, even ID numbers.

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  1. Enemy update memo by easyTree · · Score: 1

    China is this year's primary enemy. China === bad

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    Requiem for the American Dream
  2. Hitler's NAZI firm has leaked three SWASTIKAS... by Abraham++Hitler · · Score: -1

    Heil Hitler!

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  3. mongodb is a web-scale database by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    and doesn't use SQL or joins, so it's high-performance.

  4. Meanwhile... by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meanwhile, Linkedin is known to have exposed employment information for millions of employees around the world. You can see this cache of employment information today, by going to the Linked-in search page.

    --
    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    1. Re:Meanwhile... by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      You kind of missed the problem, those kind of details are more than sufficient to open a social media account, to post all kinds of rubbish, that will destroy the affected people, government mandated social media score. Want to see what kind of chaos those two together will bring, just wait a mo, it will happen. Revenge, espionage, the purposeful spreading of chaos, those HR companies have actively threatened and irreversibly damaged China's social media score system. They are in serious shite, they have opened the China up to espionage attacks on that social media score platform. Full panic mode is appropriate for that management.

      --
      Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
  5. Ching Hong Wing Dong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Ping Pang Wing Wang

  6. Oh noes! ID numbers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Name, address and DOB aren't bad, but not our top secret ID numbers! What a security nightmare!

  7. China has HR firms? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    That implies they treat their labor as human, I call bullshit.

    1. Re: China has HR firms? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I have yet to encounter an HR organization that treats employees as human.

  8. Retarded anti-knowledge faggot update memo : by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    This is a single article about resumes being leaked from unsecured online databases by Chinese firms. If that makes you feel the need to bomb China, by all means, continue being retarded and illiterate as you need to.

    1. Re:Retarded anti-knowledge faggot update memo : by easyTree · · Score: 1

      I'm going to self-woosh you.

      --
      Requiem for the American Dream
    2. Re:Retarded anti-knowledge faggot update memo : by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      You want to pretend it's part of the US defense narrative that 1 article notes people are studying Chinese exposed databases and finding stuff. Prove it, or douche with Cholula. Either way you're better off than you are now you cunt.

  9. Re: Hitler's NAZI firm has leaked three SWASTIKAS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Your other posts start well enough. "HEIL HITLER" lame. Missing the rest of your post, I'm concerned, need a doctor? Hug?

  10. Meanwhile... retard falsely equivocates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Linkedin is opt-in, so you're being retarded with the pseudo-whattaboutism there. Good work gumshoe.

    1. Re:Meanwhile... retard falsely equivocates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      So naive. It's tied into Office now. Good luck avoiding it.

      Unless you are some linux dork who works with shit software.

    2. Re:Meanwhile... retard falsely equivocates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're being 100% retarded. You put your resume on either Linkedin or Office365, that's still opt-in, Einstein.

  11. We all know what this means. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    A bunch of Chinese admins are having their social credit score drop.

    --
    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
    1. Re:We all know what this means. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A CV is not exactly a secret or sensitive document...

  12. China knows about Jewish Trump CollusionSubversion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I'm leary of any China dunnit stories because getting people to gawk at them in distracted fashion is literally what Israel/Mossad/JIDF do.

    If true there was a breach then ok so Facebook and other corporations already had a lot anyway and they share it routinely take that as granted.

    If false then you stare at it while the MSM spins it into China is a threat and we need to rally everybody behind Israel-puppet Trump with a quadrillion tweetstorm adjectives/min and people stop looking at Israeli collusion blatantly staring them in the face.

    If Slashdot actually got past 125 readers again, you could actually run a story about Israel/Trump collusion but since you will never see that here... JIDF FBI 4 LYFE MOTHERFUCKERS.

    Hi guys. Read this twitter account.

    https://twitter.com/superzar2000/with_replies

  13. China knows you might be on the drugs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    China is a demonstrated threat. Trump is a retarded fraud, traitor. Israel's is a subversive government. Those are not related points, you're just high or failing to read properly or something.

  14. Re: Hitler's NAZI firm has leaked three SWASTIKAS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Same thing. Equally appalled. Finally someone shares my opinion

  15. Au contraire mon frère... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We are talking about China here.

    In all likelihood, the social credit score for these admins will probably go up for exposing the information of nearly 600 million people.