Cyberabad cops nab man who stole personal info of 66.9 cr people in 24 states

https://newsmeter.in/top-stories/data-theft-cyberabad-cops-nab-man-stole-personal-669-cr-people-24-states-710311

by prhrb • 3 years ago

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zeckalpha• 3 years ago

66.9 crore is 669 million for those unfamiliar with the unit.

mnw21cam2• 3 years ago

For reference, "cr" is an abbreviation for the Indian word crore, which is 10^7, so this is 669 million people.

throw0101c2• 3 years ago

Interesting notation / digit grouping as well:

It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is equal to one hundred thousand, and is written as 1,00,000).[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of...

In the Indian system, the next powers of ten are called one lakh, ten lakh, one crore, ten crore, one arab (or one hundred crore), and so on; there are new words for every second power of ten (10^(5 + 2n)): lakh (10^5), crore (10^7), arab (10^9), kharab (10^11), etc. In the Western system, the next powers of ten are called one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, one hundred million, one billion (short scale)/one thousand million (long scale), and so on; in the short scale, there are new words for every third power of ten (10^3n): million (10^6), billion (10^9), trillion (10^12), etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

sva_• 3 years ago

In the Western system,

Surely they mean "in the English system". In German, we have "Milliarde" between "Millionen" and "Billionen", and so on.

In fact, they will end on "-illion" if it's a power of 10^(6n) and on "-illiarde" if it's a power of 10^(6n+3).

unwind• 3 years ago

Thanks.

Meta: the title should be changed, in my opinion.

v7engine• 3 years ago

How did he get all this data? Did he hack websites?

harrymit907• 3 years ago

More than half the data there is available on Breached and other similar forums and telegram groups freely. These clueless cops do not know this and just have to make some headlines to keep the budget flowing.

sciencesama• 3 years ago

Any links of the websites you are referring to ?

notRobot• 3 years ago

Cyberabad is a cool name.

choxi• 3 years ago

I was curious because it doesn’t sound like a typical Indian name, apparently it’s a nickname for Hyderabad because there’s a large tech industry there

samarthr1• 3 years ago

Correction, it is a region of Hyderabad which plays host to a lot of tech... So the financial district, Gachibowli, hi tech city, madhapur and the other tech areas come under cyberabad limits.

tianqi• 3 years ago

Is Cyberabad the name of the place? What can people expect to happen in a place called cyber-bad?

chsreekar• 3 years ago

The region is called Hyderabad. The tech township it hosts has been dubbed Cyberabad

cubefox• 3 years ago

I thought the headline sounded like from an 80s cyberpunk short story!

antibasilisk• 3 years ago

that sounds awesome

phanimahesh• 3 years ago

Cyber-abad, not cyber-bad. Abad means place, a somewhat common suffix. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abad

vrc• 3 years ago

Hyderabad city (specifically the area called HITEC City) in Telangana is often called Cyberabad[0] because of all of the tech co’s there.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITEC_City

vijaybritto• 3 years ago

I expect trouble for activists talking about it cause when Aadhar data was available for sale on the darknet the govt threatened to jail anyone publishing info about it

https://www.moneylife.in/article/aadhaar-data-breach-largest...

bvsrinivasan2• 3 years ago

The net number (669 million) looks wrong. India's population is around 1.4 billion, so this would mean a data leak of nearly 1 in 2 Indians. If we further remove children below 14 (30% of India) who are unlikely to have data of their own and others who are completely off any of the data leak sources, the number given here would mean everyone in India has had their data leaked!

The data distribution given in the article seems to add to approximately 7 crores (70 million). I think there is a misplaced decimal somewhere. In all probability it is 6.69 crores (66.9 million). Still very significant, though.

notimetorelax• 3 years ago

They show 21 crore from Uttar Pradesh. This state has enough people, but it’s almost everyone. So yeah, hard to believe the original statement.

bvsrinivasan2• 3 years ago

Thanks! I didn't read the data in the pictures, only read the text. Time for GPT4 I guess :-D

As you said, this also looks wrong. Maybe double-counting? Same people or IDs getting leaked across multiple platforms?

KennyBlanken• 3 years ago

India's population is around 1.4 billion

1.4b currently living people.

Just because people pass away doesn't mean their data stops existing in government records.

I'm not saying the figure is necessarily correct, just that your reason for dismissing it is faulty.

plq• 3 years ago

So that's what he was wearing while waiting for the db dump to finish, I guess?

Man, tech reporters are killing me sometimes.

avi_vallarapu• 3 years ago

Interesting to see the discussion going towards converting 66.9 cr to Millions.

However, what is the type of data is my curiosity. Is this sensitive data such as PCI or some details such as : Names, Phone Number, Location etc. If it is sensitive data, how he got that data is the biggest worry.

Hope there is enough clarity on the type of data.

zeeshanmh215• 3 years ago

would be interesting to see who was his clients.

Cyberabad cops nab man who stole personal info of 66.9 cr people in 24 states

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