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May 22, 2024

When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains

Cybersecurity has always been transient: what is deemed to be secure today, may be considered easily hackable tomorrow. Domain names in web and e-mail addresses, such as info@inti.io, are leased in time. This means that if nobody thinks of renewing them after they expire, they will be put up for sale. It made me wonder what would happen to the graveyard of cloud accounts attached to the e-mail addresses that once belonged to these expired domains.

Criminal record database of millions of Americans dumped online

A notorious cybercriminal involved in breaches has released a database containing 70 million US criminal records.