Nowadays, you will not surprise anyone with another data leak. However, the appearance in the public domain of confidential information from the working “boards” of the Trello project manager from thousands of Russian companies is still worth paying special attention to.
After all, sinister hackers from international groups or “moles” in powerful corporations did not have a hand in this event. Everything that has become public knowledge is posted by the users themselves.
Lists of employees and clients with passport data. Scans of contracts and payments. Tender documentation. Internal regulations. And, of course, passwords, passwords, passwords.
Previously, forgetful accountants wrote them on stickers glued to the monitor, now effective managers who implement agile methods are pouring them directly into the Web. In order to see all this magnificence, of course, certain skills in writing search queries are required. But by and large, thousands of trade secrets were literally hung on a fence of online boards.
The fact that the data of not only law-abiding companies has leaked is also added to the comic of the situation. Internet scammers who breed gullible foreigners with the help of fake “Russian brides”, it turns out, also use Trello. They keep boards there, make lists of tasks. Probably holding meetings and setting deadlines. But no criminal genius can cope with ordinary human carelessness and lack of knowledge.
When a wave of microcrediting swept over Russia, there was a lot of speculation about the need to introduce financial literacy classes in schools. So that graduates can read not only advertising slogans, but also the fine print, and also understand what the interest rate is.
Years have passed, the generation has changed, the inhabitants of the depressed regional centers drowned in endless chains of loans, and the lessons did not appear. Now is the time to begin the campaign to incorporate cybersecurity into the school curriculum. It actually exists there, but as a small section of computer science. It would be worth adding a dozen or two hours to understand that the Internet is a huge entrance yard. And everything that is laid out there may end up in the wrong hands. Especially if not protected in any way.
It seems that this knowledge will be useful to future accountants, managers, salespeople and officials more than the ability to program in BASIC and draw flowcharts.
