Chinese HR Firms Have Leaked Over 590 Million Resumes Via Open Databases (zdnet.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
Chinese companies have leaked a whopping 590 million resumes in the first three months of the year, ZDNet has learned from multiple security researchers. Most of the resume leaks have occurred because of poorly secured MongoDB databases and ElasticSearch servers that have been left exposed online without a password, or have ended up online following unexpected firewall errors.
Over the past few months, and especially over the last few weeks, ZDNet has received several tips about exposed servers that --when investigated-- belonged to Chinese HR-focused companies. From tiny firms exposing a handful of CVs to professional executive head-hunting firms, they've all leaked their customers' details, in one form or another... Counting all, we have 590.497 million resumes that have leaked from Chinese companies over the past three months, a worrying sign that Chinese HR companies are not taking the security of their servers seriously. The article points out that the resumes include personal information including phone numbers, home addresses, family and marital status, and in some cases, even ID numbers.
Over the past few months, and especially over the last few weeks, ZDNet has received several tips about exposed servers that --when investigated-- belonged to Chinese HR-focused companies. From tiny firms exposing a handful of CVs to professional executive head-hunting firms, they've all leaked their customers' details, in one form or another... Counting all, we have 590.497 million resumes that have leaked from Chinese companies over the past three months, a worrying sign that Chinese HR companies are not taking the security of their servers seriously. The article points out that the resumes include personal information including phone numbers, home addresses, family and marital status, and in some cases, even ID numbers.
Enemy update memo (Score:1)
China is this year's primary enemy. China === bad
Re: (Score:1)
I'm going to self-woosh you.
Meanwhile... (Score:4, Interesting)
Meanwhile... retard falsely equivocates (Score:1)
Linkedin is opt-in, so you're being retarded with the pseudo-whattaboutism there. Good work gumshoe.
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You kind of missed the problem, those kind of details are more than sufficient to open a social media account, to post all kinds of rubbish, that will destroy the affected people, government mandated social media score. Want to see what kind of chaos those two together will bring, just wait a mo, it will happen. Revenge, espionage, the purposeful spreading of chaos, those HR companies have actively threatened and irreversibly damaged China's social media score system. They are in serious shite, they have op
Re: China has HR firms? (Score:2, Insightful)
I have yet to encounter an HR organization that treats employees as human.
We all know what this means. (Score:3)
A bunch of Chinese admins are having their social credit score drop.