Introduction shinyhunters claimed to have exfiltrated over 160 million records from the national credit information center (cic) databases This is a staggering number, given vietnam’s population is under 102 million, indicating the dataset includes historical and possibly multiple records per individual The cic’s role as a centralized repository for vietnam’s credit data made it a. The problem of data leakage is increasing sharply in vietnam with 14.5 million leaked accounts, accounting for 12% of the global number, leading to a lot of personal information and corporate documents being widely sold. In 2024, the authority of information security, ministry of information and communications of vietnam, reported a significant increase in secret leakage incidents, with a 43% rise compared to the. In particular, this is the information of teachers and students from a school unit
This raises an alarm about the reality of cybersecurity solutions in the education industry Shinyhunters claims a massive data breach at vietnam's national credit information center, potentially exposing the records of the entire population.
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