“HackerDan offered to sell the lot for 10 Bitcoin – about $200,000.”
A billion people’s names, addresses, national ID numbers and police records, priced at $200,000. Binance’s CEO blamed a government developer who left credentials in a CSDN blog post. The state that collects everything about its citizens couldn’t keep it behind a password. Mass surveillance databases leak. The only question is who buys the copy.