Personal details for the entire country of Georgia published online

guest · Mar 30, 2020

Personal details for the entire country of Georgia published online
A file containing personal information for 4,934,863 Georgians has been published on a hacker forum over the weekend
March 30, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/personal-details-for-the-entire-country-of-georgia-published-online/

The personal details for more than 4.9 million Georgians, including deceased citizens, has been published on a hacking forum over the weekend, on Saturday.

The leaked data was spotted by the Under the Breach, a data breach monitoring and prevention service, and shared with ZDNet over the weekend.
Personal information such as full names, home addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, and mobile phone numbers were shared online in a 1.04 GB MDB (Microsoft Access database) file.

The database contained 4,934,863 records including details for millions of deceased citizens -- as can be seen from the screenshot below. Georgia's current population is estimated at 3.7 million, according to a 2019 census.
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It is unclear if the forum user who shared the data is the one who obtained it.

The data's source also remains a mystery. On Sunday, ZDNet initially reported this leak over as coming from Georgia's Central Election Commission (CEC), but in a statement on Monday, the commission denied that the data originated from its servers, as it contained information that they don't usually collect.
ZDNet has provided links to the leaked data to Georgian authorities who are now investigating the breach.
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Monitor Says '5 Million' Georgians' Private Data Shared On Hacker Forum

Under The Breach said they had not noticed the original leak "because it didn't surface to large hacking forums."

ZDNet reported that the user who put the 1.04 GB file on the hacker forum claimed it was from an official voter-registration portal that was down at the time its article was being prepared.

"This is similar to a lot of Russian databases which aren't getting leaked in large forums but in small Russian hacking communities because the rest of the hacking community don't really care about their leaks, mostly because they can't monetize those databases," Under The Breach told RFE/RL.
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