Bangladesh government fixes website that leaked personal data of 50 million citizens

A security researcher accidentally discovered a publicly-accessible database containing leaked information on millions of Bangladeshi citizens, including their names, phone numbers, birth certificates and national ID numbers. Viktor Markopoulos, an information security consultant at South Africa-based Bitcrack Cyber Security, told BBC News that he came across an insecure government web portal in June while searching

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