alt Hacker NewsI see comments about Swedish personal identification numbers. But the article is about source code that's leaked, not a database of numbers, right? I was thinking: should government source code not be open source anyway?
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johnisgood • today at 4:59 PM
Ideally they should be open.
The same attackers are releasing the database of personal information separately (for a fee).
That said, Sweden takes a different approach to PII, so most of that information would have already been public. You can generally just look up any resident and their ID number and other biographical details in a public directory (among other things… their tax returns are also public records).