The financial details of more than 120 million people, around 57% of Brazil's population, have been exposed after a server containing unique taxpayer registry identification numbers was discovered. According to security firm InfoArmor, who discovered the incident, the information related to about 57 percent of Brazil's population was leaked by a misconfigured server earlier this year. The issue was picked up by security firm InfoArmor, which said a misconfigured server was to blame and that two basic cybersecurity measures that would have kept the information confidential were not in place. "The data is encrypted with AES encryption using an algorithm called Dual Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman, or ECDH, but it has no protection against brute-force attacks," says InfoArmor
The financial details of more than 120 million people, around 57% of Brazil's population, have been exposed after a server containing unique taxpayer registry identification numbers was discovered. The issue was picked up by security firm InfoArmor, which said a misconfigured server was to blame and that two basic cybersecurity measures that would have kept the information confidential were not in place. "The data is encrypted with AES encryption using an algorithm called Dual Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman, or ECDH, but it has no protection against brute-force attacks," says InfoArmor