• Marketing firm Exactis may have exposed personal data on 230 million consumers
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http://thehill.com/policy/technology/394633-marketing-firm-exactis-may-have-exposed-data-on-230-million-people A massive trove of consumer data containing information on as many as 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses may have been exposed by U.S. marketing firm Exactis. Vinny Troia, a cybersecurity researcher, told Wired that he discovered the database on a publicly accessible server earlier this month. He said the trove contained 340 million records that included names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. The database did not appear to contain any financial information, Troia said, adding that he contacted the FBI about his discovery. "It seems like this is a database with pretty much every U.S. citizen in it," Troia told the magazine. "I don’t know where the data is coming from, but it’s one of the most comprehensive collections I’ve ever seen." Exactis is based in Palm Coast, Fla. The marketing company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It’s not clear whether a hacker accessed the database, but Troia said it was not hard for him to find. If the researcher’s suspicions are confirmed, the breach would vastly exceed last year's Equifax hack that exposed personal data on 145.5 million people.
how does this keep happening lol
Sue then into oblivion.
Because its the nature of how connected and accessible the internet has made massive amounts of data. Human error is never going anywhere, these things are never going to stop happening, whether its something simple like crappy passwords or something complex like hardware exploits at the CPU level (spectre). This is the downside of the information age, but I think the positives massively outweigh the negatives.
the database on a publicly accessible server It's just negligence and it's been the same in the last few cases like this.
They don't care easy
Equifax: i just made the most monumental fuckup in cybersecurity history Exactis: hold my beer
we should start fining companies an upwards of billions for shit like this
and America is too much of a corporate cocksucker to hold them accountable
Yeah negligence is covered under human error. It doesn't really matter if it was a genuine mistake or laziness or assumptions or whatever, the data will get out regardless.
Human error. That's almost always the cause. Someone committed something improperly, tables didn't get updated by someone, someone brought an infected flash drive. Security doesn't exist, this is the golden age of internet leaks, breaches, heists, and fuck ups. Get used to it now, we're only just starting
that worked for equifax L O L wait.. rip :c
Wonder if all the buzz around GDPR will mean anything now that it's come into effect officially.
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