If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

https://lemmy.ml/post/43495940

If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. - Lemmy

Lemmy

The Cybernews research team discovered an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.

Welp. I guess, time to change passwords.

holy shit I used this exact method this week at work to extract a paid-for database for free.