I was roaming on Zone-H.org today, and was looking at different defacements by different groups. Here is a defacement I found particularly interesting: Defaced Page

I was wondering, how in the world did this defacer get all of this info? Is this public record and he just posted it, did he/she illegally get into a database somewhere, or did the victim just give the information up on IRC?

How much info is out there for the "taking?" I thought some of this stuff was private (like SSN's), but it is obvious it is not by this defacement. This is really scary if you ask me

I was also thinking how careless some (including I) get when chatting, posting, or just throwing information un-encrypted or cautiously on the Internet. This to me is how carelessness can really backfire.

How "private" is our private information?

Edit: Sorry for the broken link

Cheers