Hackers managed to break into government and public service computer systems in my country, gaining access to police and court records of like 16 million people and caf record (gibmedat office) of 22 millions people. They got names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, files on suspects, victims and witnesses, access to private police communcations, potentially access to the national DNA database as well. Does this happen in your country?
>>217724971In my cunt the government already sells all DNA and medical data to the chinese and gives amazon the voting records. no need to hack when the government already gives out everything for free.
Yes but we don't hear about it because that'd be a national security violation (read: make the leadership look bad).
>>217724971Let me guess, hacker were russian?
>steal all the neetbux>22 millions roam the streets for foodInsidious.
>>217724971Hackers hacked the entire state of Nevada shutting down pretty much every gov website That was in like August
>>217725184Well at least they make some money from it, in your country >>217725201They were also trying to sweep it under the rug at first saying that it was only a minor breach, then the hackers leaked that caf data and now it's pretty fucking obvious they have nothing under control>>217725206No, french
>>217724971>Does this happen in your country?No, it couldn't. We're not centralized, we're a federation. Every federal state does its own thing, has its own computer systems, and they don't work with eachother.An example I learned in the last few weeks - there's an EU regulation or law that states that geodata and cartography, official records on what is built where, has to be made available to the public free of charge, as it has been gathered with tax payer money. Some federal states like my native Northrhine-Westphalia have excellent portals where you can download everything, in different formats, where you can search and visualize everything. Some federal states like Bavaria don't publish anything and simply tell you "we're working on it and we'll be working on it for the next 20 years or so". If you're a planner, an architect or something, you will then have to BUY your data from commercial providers.
>create database>it gets stolenEvery time
>>217724971What's wrong with exposing the scum of society?
>>217725361We've been hacked before
>>217725361GrimI actually work with such data and thankfully here it's all centralised and relatively easy to download for the whole cunt. I even made 3D models of whole cities with that data.
>>217725418Witnesses are scum?
>>217725455A small price to pay
>>217725436>I even made 3D models of whole cities with that data.We did that at the university, but as I said I live in NRW where the data is freely available. Through a cooperation with the official records department of my city we also got aerial photos (for which you would normally have to pay some 10,000s of Euros). I worked long and hard to paste those pictures onto 3D models of all of the 260,000 buildings in my city, and later we built an installation and showed our interactive model in city hall, with a huge touch display for the public to play with and a video wall.What level of detail do you get in your country? LOD 1 is publicly available, LOD 3 we got with our contract with the public records deparment.
who dun it ? Russia? China? Israel?
>>217725518Nah I never went to such level mainly because for my work I care mostly about the position and general shape of surrounding buildings (and terrain) to check for sights and shadows in relationship to the plot where I'm working but that's about it. If I've done a 3D model of a whole city it was mostly out of curiosity because I already had the data in hand.>What level of detail do you get in your country? LOD 1 is publicly availableI would say 1.3 (setbacks, balconies etc). I know there are other data bases out there but I haven't checked and they are probably paid or not publicly available as well.
>>217725613Well idk, they arrested one french guy who took part in it but apparently he was part of a whole international group that specializes in this sort of thing. Might have been an /int/ernational endeavor
>>217724971What can the victims expect? Their private business is now public, but will this enable identity theft and criminals taking loans and stuff in their name?
>>217725786People might be able to take out student loan from minors since student INE numbers leaked. Identity theft is also very likely, but taking an actual loan from a bank might be a little more difficult. Most problematic part is how easy it'd be to do a targeted attack at someone since you know their email address, actual irl address, name, phone number, relatives, age, earnings, and potentially more.
>>217726022> Identity theft is also very likely,Cyberpunk irl.
all of that is already public here
>>217724971It happens sometimes and people still think it's a good idea to put all our sensitive information on some server that can be hacked by the entire world instead of keeping it under lock and key in a closed system that isn't accessible from the outside or even better, as hard copies only.
>>217724971if the government has your data in any server whatsoever you failed and are dumb
>>217725361>bavarians are bad at computersinteresting
>>217724971>caf recordneetbros... i dont feel so good...
>>217724971>please change your password 2 times a week, 24 characters with numbers, ascii and chinese alphabet in it, also triple verification is now mandatory>get hacked and leak your data
>>217727322I am not even a neet and I'm impacted by this because of prime d'activité, this is fucked
>>217727363I've noticed that the shittiest websites tend to have the most intense password requirements (tons of digits, upper case lower case number symbol etc) while the most secure and "safe" websites belonging to tech giants are ok if your password is something like 1234.
>>217727363the whole policy of changing passwords is absurd and the password complexity is irrelevant if you properly implement anti-brute-force methods (like, you can't try to log in more than once per minute).t infosec codemonkey
