The hacking of the city's education database could affect up to 150,000 children and guardians, and has been described as "possibly the largest data breach affecting [Finland's] municipal sector".

Oh man, imagine all the power I’d have with all the Helsinki students’ personal data

nah I think that’d be about as useful as seeing a thousand different license plates on a thousand different cars every day

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the information was “stored on a City network drive”

This sounds like it was one large Excel sheet …

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