Data of 243 million Brazilians exposed online via website source code

[KWR65]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-of-243-million-brazilians-exposed-online-via-website-source-code/

The personal information of more than 243 million Brazilians, including alive and deceased, has been exposed online after web developers left the password for a crucial government database inside the source code of an official Brazilian Ministry of Health's website for at least six months.

Security and Privacy are a myth in the 21st Century.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Privacy? Yeah more or less ...

Security is not a myth though. This just a colossal fuckup by developers.

Like writing the combination to the safe in sharpie next to the knob.

[Dem2]

2. That's a lot of people

Almost a brazillion!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Idiots. I know sometimes site developers put in personal passwords into programs and such,

so later if need be, they can get into the programs to fix things (those programmers you can trust). I did so, but the practice of installing passwords into the source code went away a long time ago, and is usually table driven. Such a sensitive DB should have had more security assigned to it.

[Mike 03]

4. That is more people than the population of Brazil, unless they had explosive growth

last year. I guess it includes a lot of deceased.

In 2019, the total population of Brazil was estimated at around 210 million inhabitants