A database of 1.2 billion users’ personal information, including social media accounts, email addresses and phone numbers, was discovered unprotected Google Cloud server.
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Data Viper uncovers Massive Data Leak of 1.2 Billion People
A customer of People Data Labs left their data unprotected, exposing 4TB of data and 1.2 billion user profiles including personal and social media information.
Continue readingChina Surveillance of Tourist Phones for Objectionable Media
Border authorities routinely install the app on the phones of people entering the Xinjiang region by land from Central Asia, gathering personal data and scanning for material considered objectionable.
Vinny Troia provides assistance with the discovery of the material, which appears to be mostly terroristic in nature.
Exactis – Major data leak exposes information of most US citizens
Exactis exposed a database of 340 million records on the open internet, which included the information of nearly every U.S citizen.
Continue reading2 Billion Unencrypted Records Leaked In Marketing Data Breach
763,117,241 people have had their records leaked by Verifications IO: including verified emails, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram account details, credit scoring and even mortgage data such as amount owing and interest rates being charged.
Diachenko reported, working alongside researcher Vinny Troia, that a total of 808,539,939 records had been leaked.
Verifications.io Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing 150 gigabytes of detailed, plaintext marketing data—including 763 million unique email addresses.
Continue readingApollo.io Data Leak Exposes Billions Records
Apollo.io leaks info on 212 million contacts with over nine billion data points related to companies and organizations.
Continue readingData breaches keep happening. So why don’t you do something?
Timehop, an app that collects old photos and posts from social media, disclosed a breach in July that affected 21 million of its users. Names, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses were among the identifiable details that were leaked.
Continue readingCalifornia Data Protection – Can it Protect Your Data?
California’s new data protection law gives consumers sweeping control over how much personal information companies can collect. But does it really help when companies are breached?
Continue readingThe Exactis data breach: Paving the road to data dystopia
Have you heard yet about the Exactis data breach? Discovered by security researcher Vinny Troia, with 340 million records exposed, this one looks ugly.
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