- Personal data: name, CPF (Brazilian taxpayer ID), email address, and date of birth;
- Data related to the guarantee payment: information about the taxes withheld from the payment and about the distribution channel through which the guaranteed investment was made at the liquidated institution”
Never underestimate Brazil. Just today I had to deal with a Brazilian government website which tried to authenticate me by birth date.
I've actually come to prefer their incompetence... Should they try to fix their broken assumptions, they will likely overcorrect and go off into the deep end and into full totalitarianism instead. Fraudulent calls got so bad nobody answers the phone anymore, so they just enacted a regulation requiring facial recognition to obtain or maintain a phone number. Now there's even more personal information being collected and stored. It's essentially a matter of time until they get breached and people's biometrics leak.
Translated to English: https://fgc-comunicado-en.netlify.app/
“What data was affected
- Personal data: name, CPF (Brazilian taxpayer ID), email address, and date of birth;
- Data related to the guarantee payment: information about the taxes withheld from the payment and about the distribution channel through which the guaranteed investment was made at the liquidated institution”
Ouch this one is be bad... Millions of personal records in their control.
Payment data, social security numbers and so on. All oficial data, Fraudsters will have a field day with it.
They already have all that and more: https://cyberbrics.info/the-largest-personal-data-leakage-in...
Default assumption has to be that all PII is all exposed by now. How can It still be effective for fraud?
Never underestimate Brazil. Just today I had to deal with a Brazilian government website which tried to authenticate me by birth date.
I've actually come to prefer their incompetence... Should they try to fix their broken assumptions, they will likely overcorrect and go off into the deep end and into full totalitarianism instead. Fraudulent calls got so bad nobody answers the phone anymore, so they just enacted a regulation requiring facial recognition to obtain or maintain a phone number. Now there's even more personal information being collected and stored. It's essentially a matter of time until they get breached and people's biometrics leak.
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