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Individual Personal Details From "Aadhaar", India's Billion-Person Identity Database, for $8

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 09 2018, @09:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'd-buy-that-for-a-dollar dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Aadhaar biometric database covering over 99% of the adult population in India has been compromised and its contents are now for sale. Full personal details on around 1 billion adult citizens of India, including several biometrics, are available for $8.

takyon: $8 per individual.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by bob_super on Tuesday January 09 2018, @10:19PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @10:19PM (#620241)

    Offer and demand. Databases of Americans' private data get breached every other day.
    And when it comes to credit cards, Americans have a much higher turnover, so the numbers are more likely to be obsolete,

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