Angus McIntyre on Nostr: If this story is to be believed, a hack of privacy-violations-as-a-service business ...

If this story is to be believed, a hack of privacy-violations-as-a-service business National Public Data resulted in the inadvertent doxing of slightly more than a third of the human race.

At this point, high-profile hacks of data-scavenging services are so endemic that unless you belong to an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon or Papua New Guinea, the odds are good that everything there is to know about you is sitting in a giant zipfile on a server somewhere.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/hack-exposed-data-three-billion-people