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Sead Fadilpašić

Green Card Lottery applicants see private data leaked online

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Hundreds of thousands of people applying for the US Green Card Lottery have had their personally identifiable data (PII) exposed on the internet, due to sloppy data protection practices by a third party. 

This is according to a report from  researchers at Cybernews, who found the data and notified the company operating the database, when it was subsequently locked. 

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