Sounds similar to a case where I am from:
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall...
The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall...
The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.
Imagine the number of lazy programmers who paste stuff into an online Base64 decoder. Imagine all the stuff that is in those payloads!
Running a site like base64decode.org would be a fantastic honeypot.