Hacker News Reader

Comment by hypeatei | Hacker News Reader

Here is a strongly encrypted base64 version to keep hackers out:

bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDozY2FhNzFmM2VjOGNiY2NjNmZjYTRmZWI3MTg1ZGEyYmFiMTQ5YmE3JmRuPU5QRCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0b3JyZW50LmNvbTo4MCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW50cmFja3Iub3JnOjEzMzcvYW5ub3VuY2U=

Allegedly, the password (also base64 encrypted) is:

aHR0cHM6Ly91c2RvZC5pby8=

View on HN

Has anyone been able to reverse this base64 encryption? Whatever am I going to do with this?

It can't be reversed, unfortunately. base64 has been peer proven as mathematically unhackable.

Username checks out.

Same for base16. That's why those pesky hash digests always use it.

rot13 is way faster though.

do you still hang out with CrashOverRide?

Only in phonebooths during slow-motion, rotating hack montages.

https://www.base64decode.org/

I hope this helps you

It was a joke, but thank you. The internet needs more helpful people.

Wasn't it a joke?

I just knew someone was going to take it seriously xD

I dug into this a little and one of the files is 164GB. How do you even work with these files? That is, how would I search for my SSN on my windows box?

That's not even that big? `cat big_file | grep -v my_term` would go line-by-line and show any lines matching your query. If you're doing a lot of queries, you'd probably want to index it, so you throw it into a sqlite database with the usual SQL utils.

Edit: I missed you said Windows. Probably Powershell have similar utilities, so you can do `ReadFileLineByLine \r \d big_file | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s my_term` or something similar.

You absolutely do not want to use "-v" with that grep.

Nor do you want to use cat (UUoCA) but that's very much a minor point in comparison.

UUoCA: https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award

I hadn't heard of it before.

Using sift on a 100GB txt file still takes multiple minutes. I haven't tried ag, but grep is supposedly slower.

If the desire is just to grep for your name, email address, whatever, and then throw the rest of the data away, I don't think waiting multiple minutes is a big deal.

I can't believe HN mods think it's ok to leave this comment up. I don't know of a way to report it myself unfortunately.

Excuse me, why is linking to something bad? Especially when it contains your own data?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing?lang=en

Doxxing involves targeting an individual, as mentioned in the first line of that wiki page.

I'm not publishing or leaking any data either. I'm linking to something that was already made public which contains my own data.

Linking to personal information may be considered publishing in some areas.

Also it's just a really crappy thing to do IMO.

I get it now, but I have so much imposter syndrome that I wasn't sure if this was ACTUALLY something I needed to figure out -__-

Anyone know the size after the 50GB file is un7zipped?

EDIT: answer: 2 files, 176GB and 120GB, total is 298GB.

Entire family is in the list, with every address they've lived at in the last 40 years.

Freeze your credit reports, folks.

Elsewhere in this thread I posted a detailed commentary on what the torrent contains.

FYI: This is only the two social security files, not the whole breach.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com