NZ IRD exposes ~500,000 users details to Facebook.
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2024 11:43 pm
Forget data breaches, NZ Inland Revenue Department gave ~500,000 users details to Facebook
Seriously what muppet thought that was a good idea, didn't they think for a moment that it's dead easy to match the hashed data to a Facebook account, it would only take a second to match the unsalted hash's to the users account by iterating through the NZ users in their database.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527 ... -campaigns
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ma ... ences#hash
seriously gob smacked
Seriously what muppet thought that was a good idea, didn't they think for a moment that it's dead easy to match the hashed data to a Facebook account, it would only take a second to match the unsalted hash's to the users account by iterating through the NZ users in their database.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527 ... -campaigns
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ma ... ences#hash
seriously gob smacked