Researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovered a Bangladeshi government website the leaks the personal information of millions of Bangladesh citizens. He discovered this on June 27, 2023, and shortly after contacted the Bangladeshi e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT). The leak includes full names, phone numbers, email addresses and national ID numbers of about 50 millions of Bangladeshi citizens.
“It just appeared as a Google result and I wasn’t even intending on finding it. I was Googling an SQL error and it just popped up as the second result,” he told TechCrunch.
In response, the Bangladeshi government on July 9, 2023 took down citizens’ sensitive data that it had left exposed online.
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