Me too.

I have the informatiom for every single United States citizen.

Phone numbers.

Social Security numbers.

Addresses.

First names.

Last names.

Email addresses.

All of it.

I just can't confirm who it all belongs to.

You could pay money to get it all though probably not much to someone that could actually use it

I always dislike the absolute-ish kind of phrasing like "the personal information", implying it's all information.

Getting/using the information isn't hard, just think of how many hands your social/information goes through whenever you apply for something. It's more that once you use that information for profit and such, you're now a pretty big target. Much more so than just selling stolen goods, theft, etc. Plenty other ways to make money with those skills without involving federal documents.

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9 million datasets?

How was he “trying to sell” it if the same article says he posted it on a public forum?

> Police say the trove consists of “registration data,” essential info residents must provide to authorities. That includes their full name, address and date of birth — but not financial info, fortunately.

These are easy enough to find without any “hacking”...

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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?

I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started hacking that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve hacked a lot and I tell you people do that all the time.

-- Dutch hacker, probably.

It isn´t. There are public telephone books, but many people opt out (and nowadays you have to opt in). There is a difference between having to search the details for every address, or having full access to all names and adresses of a whole country.

It doesn't specify what sort of information.

Maybe its eash persons thoughts on Coke vs Pepsi.

You'll be pleased to know there are currently no legal and financial consequences for the government agency that is responsible the data leak. They say that they did everything the could by informing 9 million Austrians via press release.

It specifies the core info; names, birth dates & corresponding addresses.

But they seem to hint that more was there ("registration data"), not sure why not tell us what.

And also where the fucker got the data from, as that could point to what other datapoints might be in it, and if it's really 9 million people, or a bunch of fake registrations.

...And whom not to trust with your data.

Nice to see them go after Mark Zuckerberg