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. As an exercise in amplifying a data theft to levels that endanger public safety, the latest evolution of the Guntrader database break-in is likely to become an infosec case study in how breaches can become worse over time as stolen information is put to ever more intrusive uses.

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