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by acdha 1003 days ago
It didn’t seem to be focused on AI except for the very reasonable concerns that AI research involves lots of data and often also people without much security experience. Seeing things like personal computer backups in the dump immediately suggests that this was a quasi-academic division with a lot less attention to traditional IT standards: I’d be shocked if a Windows engineer could commit a ton of personal data, passwords, API keys, etc. and first hear about it from an outside researcher.