British Gun registration DB hacked and posted online

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British Gun registration DB hacked and posted online

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Crazy animal activists.. the latest threat to gun owners.

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But there are additional reasons why Americans should always oppose a federal gun registry, especially in a time of the “internet of things” — namely, cyber warriors and black hat actors are hacking gun registry sites in England and that means every Brit on that list is now in danger.

The Register reports why this is a big deal:

The names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been dumped online as a Google Earth-compatible CSV file that pinpoints domestic homes as likely firearm storage locations – a worst-case scenario for victims of the breach.
The breach was likely done by an animal rights group — remember that in the UK, the rights of citizens to bear arms for protection from criminals as well as from government overreach is not a recognized inalienable right — as a means of putting guns used for hunting in danger of being stolen. We know this because the database was leaked online via an animal rights activist’s blog in database form that can be imported into Google Earth so that anyone ‘interested’ in where these guns are can “contact as many [owners] as you can in your area and ask them if they are involved in shooting animals.”

So it’s a harassment campaign, for certain, but also these guns are now ‘known’ to those who would love to steal as many of them as possible.

“Names, home addresses, postcodes, phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses are included in the Google Drive-hosted CSV file – along with precise geographic coordinates for a large number of the 111,295 people listed in the breach,” The Register reported, noting that all pertinent information is now public.
The outlet noted that the data breach exposed about 20 percent of British gun owners.
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