A hacker offered to sell the full name, address and date of birth of virtually everyone in Austria – and nearly got away with the crime. The Dutch criminal, who has not been named, carried out the feat from his apartment in Amsterdam.
Police say ‘similar data sets’ from Italy, Holland and Colombia were had also been put up for sale
A hacker offered to sell the full name, address and date of birth of virtually everyone in Austria – and nearly got away with the crime.Police say the 25-year-old offered the data for sale in an online forum in May 2020. The information was advertised as ‘the full name, gender, complete address and date of birth of presumably every citizen’ in Austria.The trove of names comprised close to nine million sets of data, with Austria’s population is roughly 9.1 million.
Police say the hacker had also put ‘similar data sets’ from Italy, the Netherlands and Colombia up for sale. The Austrian information is so-called registration data – basic information including a current address that residents are required to provide to the authorities.
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