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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

cambridgeanalytica.org

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Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

cambridgeanalytica.org

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Nearly one million passports and driver's licenses from multiple countries were left unprotected online with zero password protection. Here's what happened.

https://archive.ph/a6Tmo

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  • (des)mosthenes@lemmy.world
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    first off - how is cambridge analytica still a thing in 2026?

    • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They even mention the Cambridge analytica scandal for some reason

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        Probably AI written and they didn’t put “Don’t make us look like idiots” in the prompt.

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      That’s exactly what I was thinking

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      It seems someone re-registered the expired domain and turned it into whatever it is today.

      https://whois.domaintools.com/cambridgeanalytica.org

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      • Created on: 2025-09-05
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      Wiki says they’re defunct, so some party must have bought their website or something.

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    […] PuffPal, a platform that manages membership and age verification for cannabis retailers and clubs across Europe.

    Get ready for many more leaks, as governments require identity and age verification everywhere online.

    Many organisations, which cannot be trusted with this data, are going to be processing it.

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    Has the link gone down? I get error when trying to access

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      yeah here’s an archive https://archive.ph/a6Tmo

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