Hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have breached Vietnam’s Credit Information Center (CIC), stealing up to 3 billion records including 160 million personal records. If confirmed, this is a wake-up call: centralized national databases are prime targets, but often the least defended. I’ve been warning about these vulnerabilities for years. Data isn’t gold. It’s radioactive. Valuable when handled with precision, catastrophic when leaked.
Yes, but protecting this data doesn't have to be as difficult as it used to be. Application-level encryption (aka, field or column level encryption) can be done much easier today, allowing for fine-grained data protection without having to rewrite application code or suffer performance degradation.
Thanks for the warning. We'll pay closer attention to the security of our national system.
Good one. Still i see many many systems and orgs heavily rely on just TLS to protect their Organization and never put priority on Encryption@Rest including actual message encryption not just a high level db encryption. There are crypto libraries fast enough to encrypt any amount of data in milli/microb secs ( if implemented right)
Scary! 😊
Data isn't just gold, it's a liability. This breach really highlights that.
Basically, personal information of the whole nation is now on the dark web for sales - what a catastrophy! Everyone in Vietnam that I know who has a phone has received Vshing attacks - it's just a matter of whether they fail for it or not.
So somebody may know the leaked behavioural data of target ones. Omg! We have to stay secured no matter what.
I don’t have a cry button to express my feelings right now 😭🥲
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1moMy personal blog post with some analysis: https://vnhacker.substack.com/p/canh-bao-lo-du-lieu-cic DataBreaches's article: https://databreaches.net/2025/09/08/vietnams-national-credit-registration-and-reporting-agency-hacked-most-of-the-population-affected/