Security News > 2021 > August > Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth

The names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been dumped online as a Google Earth-compatible.

Dumped online last week onto an animal rights activist's blog, the reformatted Guntrader breach data was explicitly advertised as being importable into Google Earth so randomers could "Contact as many [owners] as you can in your area and ask them if they are involved in shooting animals."

Names, home addresses, postcodes, phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses are included in the file - along with precise geographic coordinates for a large number of the 111,295 people listed in the breach.

The file emerged on a clearnet site hosted in Iceland and presents a severe risk not only to British firearm and shotgun certificate holders but also anyone who moved house to one of the addresses mentioned in the leak of the stolen database, which contains data up to five years old.

Police have previously issued warnings to the licensed firearms community emphasising personal safety after a spate of robberies targeting licensed firearms owners outside their homes and at rifle ranges; the Guntrader breach could lead to a spate of such crimes.

British policy on firearms ownership is that domestic homes that may contain a handful of firearms or shotguns are less likely to be targeted than the alternative of central armouries presenting a high-value target.

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