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A marketing firm exposed a shitton of personal info
| and the leak doesn't seem to contain credit card information or Social Security numbers—it does go into minute detail for each individual listed, including phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses, and other highly personal characteristics for every name. The categories range from interests and habits to the number, age, and gender of the person's children.
"It seems like this is a database with pretty much every US citizen in it," says Troia, who is the founder..
| Well shit i thought this was /new/ but i hope this is acceptable for /tech/ too.
...Of a New York based security company.
Now if you just expect some simple data, you are wrong as fuck. Here's a sample record from Troy Hunt, Founder of HaveIBeenPwned?
https://pastebin.com/QUMSr4q5
Reminding this whole data was exposed, Not breached or anything, just exposed to the entire internet.
| they just fucking doxed the entire population
| Source: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/
https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1022232703716880385
| Damn that shit's good enough for /lain/
| Wonder if they'll even get a fine for that
| >MULTI BOARD THREADING!
| Now that's a huge fail.
| Is it only about US citizen?
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| Security researcher Vinny Troia discovered that Exactis, a data broker based in Palm Coast, Florida, had exposed a database that contained close to 340 million individual records on a publicly accessible server. The haul comprises close to 2 terabytes of data that appears to include personal information on hundreds of millions of American adults, as well as millions of businesses. While the precise number of individuals included in the data isn't clear...