In this part of the presentation, Chuiso discussed the importance of data privacy and how it can be used to attack a company or individual.
Specifically, it gives four main places where they can extract our data:
Chuiso gave the example of the case of José Gallardo , which, although it was not a well-known attack nor one with serious consequences, perfectly demonstrates how to obtain a person's private data and use it against them.
Real example: José Gallardo
José Gallardo was an unknown man until he entered a Twitter contest held by Aquarius. The prize was to win a wax replica that would remain in the wax museum for a whole year. To win the contest, you had to get the tweet with the most retweets.
José Gallardo was not participating alone, he had great competition mobile database uae a YouTuber and "Litri", the well-known administrator of forocoches who was supported by the forum users. But José realized that if he used Twitter tools that sent an abnormal amount of retweets to his rivals, they were penalized.
With this strategy, José was declared the winner of the prize and his figure remained in the wax museum for a year.
to leave it there and set up their well-known CSI , that is, to find out all the information about José Gallardo. As a result of this search, not only the address where José lived was published on the forum, but they also found out which school he went to when he was a child and many other details.
As revenge from the users of Forocoches, José was receiving pizzas at his home for a whole month.