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Possible target for spear phishing (easier to social engineer when more information about a target is public).

Account take-over if the password was used elsewhere (credential stuffing).

Become a target for Extortion or Blackmail: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-opportunistic-and-empty-threat-...

Edit: Some companies still use birth dates, security questions or social security numbers for identification. If the information is public, any one can identify as that person via a phone call. https://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=SMS&x=10&y=14 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/voice-phishing-scams-are... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/hanging-up-on-mobile-in-...

Thanks, It all started when I got asked whether I could build a simple way to download specific areas of google maps. The following day a college asked whether it was possible to just get the traffic layer and download it for further analysis. So map-dl was born :-)

I wonder if there is a reason for the high cost. In Australia some of the infrastructure is being upgraded for the NBN, maybe that's part of it? I don't know but I'm curious to find out.