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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"after finding it stored in an unsecured Elasticsearch database hosted on a Baidu server.

This doesn’t indicate any involvement from either company — all kinds of organizations store their data with these providers.

There’s no indication of who, exactly, built the dataset, but records show that the data is recent, with its latest entries dating from December 2024."... Hmmmm