Comment by bhaney
9 months ago
> Someone created a magnet link yesterday
Are you against simply sharing the infohash here? I'd like to download the leak to see what information it has on myself and my family, but I don't really relish the idea of signing up for a breachforums account and sifting though its posts if I can avoid it.
Here is a strongly encrypted base64 version to keep hackers out:
bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDozY2FhNzFmM2VjOGNiY2NjNmZjYTRmZWI3MTg1ZGEyYmFiMTQ5YmE3JmRuPU5QRCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0b3JyZW50LmNvbTo4MCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW50cmFja3Iub3JnOjEzMzcvYW5ub3VuY2U=
Allegedly, the password (also base64 encrypted) is:
aHR0cHM6Ly91c2RvZC5pby8=
Has anyone been able to reverse this base64 encryption? Whatever am I going to do with this?
It can't be reversed, unfortunately. base64 has been peer proven as mathematically unhackable.
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https://www.base64decode.org/
I hope this helps you
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I dug into this a little and one of the files is 164GB. How do you even work with these files? That is, how would I search for my SSN on my windows box?
That's not even that big? `cat big_file | grep -v my_term` would go line-by-line and show any lines matching your query. If you're doing a lot of queries, you'd probably want to index it, so you throw it into a sqlite database with the usual SQL utils.
Edit: I missed you said Windows. Probably Powershell have similar utilities, so you can do `ReadFileLineByLine \r \d big_file | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s my_term` or something similar.
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I can't believe HN mods think it's ok to leave this comment up. I don't know of a way to report it myself unfortunately.
Excuse me, why is linking to something bad? Especially when it contains your own data?
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I get it now, but I have so much imposter syndrome that I wasn't sure if this was ACTUALLY something I needed to figure out -__-
Anyone know the size after the 50GB file is un7zipped?
EDIT: answer: 2 files, 176GB and 120GB, total is 298GB.
Entire family is in the list, with every address they've lived at in the last 40 years.
Freeze your credit reports, folks.
Elsewhere in this thread I posted a detailed commentary on what the torrent contains.
FYI: This is only the two social security files, not the whole breach.
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BitTorrent uses something called a "distributed hash table", for which there exist services to search it (btdig, etc). You can use one of those alongside the torrent name (NPD) to find it.
I haven't downloaded it, but my understanding is that the data comes compressed and with a (weak) password.
You can check to see if you were in the breach here:
https://npd.pentester.com/search
This will save you the effort of a 30min search per `grep` on the original breached files.
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fyi that is likely to be a crime, at the very least has been cases of websites being punished for linking to illegally distributed IP (even if not hosting it).
I'd be worried about legal repercussions if we were talking about the latest Disney movie, but this is merely the private information of a billion people. Never seen IP law give much of a crap about that before.
Private information on people is Equifax's IP.
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1 pirated Disney movie is a tragedy.
3,000,000,000 leaked Social Security Numbers is a statistic.
-Joseph "Social Credit" Stalin
...Is it obvious I, as an American who can confirm my SSN (and whatever else) was leaked by this, sincerely couldn't care less because this is leak incident number 897165176548795647564576415671?
That $10 UberEats gift card from CrowdStrike would be more valuable than another batch of Free Credit Monitoring(tm).
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Is this NPD's "IP" though? Is my personal information that company scraped, now that company's intellectual property?
Where's the IP?
It's like phone books--a collection of data, no creative content.