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A hacker has been rumbled in possession of personal ID data of Greek citizens, with the man holding a staggering nine million pieces of data — enough to cover almost the entire population of the country.
The batch of stolen information included ID card data, personal addresses, tax ID and car registration numbers, with the nine million individual pieces of data accounting for some 83 per cent of all Greeks. Although any duplicated entries would take that percentage lower and make it appear like a slightly less apocalyptic hack.
Authorities are investigating whether the 35-year old computer programmer was working alone or had an inside man funneling him the files, plus he’s also suspected of trying to sell his amazing haul of Greek information. [Reuters via Wired]
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Is it true he transferred the data using a Greece lightning connector cable?
That image of the Greek structure, I think it’s the Parthenon, is apt to describe what state Greece is in right now. A true metaphor.
Call me Dave would tell them they “should have fixed the roof while the sun was shining”.
Exactly.
Might have helped if Britain hadn’t disassembled part of it and refused to give it back.
Well, countries are known for there niggardly attitudes. And Mr Cameron especially.
To be fair we did go all the way over there to get it, have you seen how much the Elgin Marbles weigh?
I’m not dragging it all the way down there!
Greece pay debts XD
Personally, I would’ve tried to bargain the data for the release of the two Game Devs being held out there… But oh well
Having the ID data of a nation is worth a hell of a lot of money, unless the nation happens to be Greece. I man was found with a hot potato in Ireland recently, having all the ID data of that nation – it earned him a hot potato.
Greece’s total economic output after five years of recession is now estimated at 200 billion euros ($256 billion), while the total stock of debt stands at 340 billion euros. It grew recently from 328 billion euros to the current 340.