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Hacker Leaks Data on Angela Merkel and Hundreds of German Lawmakers

posted by mrpg on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:00AM   
from the data-in-german-is-____ dept.

MrPlow writes:

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[...] The data was leaked from a Twitter account, since suspended, and included email addresses, phone numbers, photo IDs and other personal data on hundreds of senior political figures.

According to a government spokesperson, there was no “sensitive” data from the chancellor’s office, but other lawmakers had more personal data stolen. Other portions of the leaked data included Facebook and Twitter passwords. Some had their credit card information stolen, and chat logs and private letters published in the breach.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/04/germany-data-breach-lawmakers-leak/

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Original Submission

• What's the huge leap? What's the huge leap? (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:00AM (1 child)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:00AM (#782466) Homepage

  From: "In the hands of a publically-traded foreign-based company"
  To: "In the hands of the public"
  
  My only response is "yeah, happens". If you wanted it secret, you'd have kept it secret.

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

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• Re:What's the huge leap? (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:50PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:50PM (#782506) Homepage

  Now they have the filthy blackmail of Angela with human shit all over her mouth, chest, and hands. I'd like to see her explain it away as a cupcake and brownie binge.

  One might even say...she was caught brown-handed! HahahahhaheeheeheeHOOOOOOOOOO!

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