ShinyHunters claims to have breached Vietnam's CIC, stealing 3 billion records.

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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.

Kieran Miller

Chief Architect at Garantir specializing in enterprise digital signature and asymmetric cryptography applications.

1mo

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.

Hiếu Phạm

Software/Data Infra @ Vietnam National Data Center

1mo

Thanks for the warning. We'll pay closer attention to the security of our national system.

Nagaraju A.

Exploring Cryptology | IAM Security Professional| PINGIdentity | Cryptography | Forgerock | |Sailpoint| PKI | DevOps |CLOUD

1mo

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)

Thanh Truong

Fintech enthusiast | Passionate about innovation, growth, and user behavior | Startup mindset & Zen approach for sustainable success. 🚀💡🧘♂️

1mo

Scary! 😊

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Data isn't just gold, it's a liability. This breach really highlights that.

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Kien Hoang

CISSP | PMP | PSM II - Scrum Master at Eli Lilly and Company

3w

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.

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Ngân Võ (Vickie)

Tốt nghiệp ngành Ngữ Văn Anh, ĐH KHXH - NV, ĐH Quốc Gia Tp.HCM.

1mo

So somebody may know the leaked behavioural data of target ones. Omg! We have to stay secured no matter what.

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Harvey Spec

OSCP | Dvuln | President Deakin Information Security Club | Sydney, Australia

1mo

I don’t have a cry button to express my feelings right now 😭🥲

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