Sales Intelligence Startup Apollo Left 125 million emails in a public database
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That's apparently not just spin. Night Lion Security founder Vinny Troia, who routinely scans the internet for unprotected, freely accessible databases, discovered Apollo's trove containing 212 million contact listings as well as nine billion data points related to companies and organizations. All of which was readily available online, for anyone to access.
As Apollo noted in its letter to customers, it draws a lot of its information from public sources around the web, including names, email addresses, and company contact information. But it also scrapes Twitter and LinkedIn. In fact, the information in the profiles Apollo compiles is so detailed that Troia originally mistook it for a trove from LinkedIn.
"It's just a staggering amount of data. There were 125,929,660 unique email addresses in total. This will probably be the most email notifications HaveIBeenPwned has ever sent for one breach," Hunt says. "Clearly this is all about 'data enrichment,' creating comprehensive profiles of individuals that can then be used for commercial purposes. As such, the more data an organization like Apollo can collect, the more valuable their service becomes."
https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-breach-linkedin-salesforce-data/
Lmao even more fucking retarded than Yahoo's mistake
Marketing and Sales firms cannot be trusted with any data. There's no IT forethought put into these databases just "hurr durr we gut data lets sell ads hurr durr".
"intelligence"
Don't forget to send them a GDPR Art. 17 - Right to be forgotten request if you're an EU citizen.
this is my biggest fear of those companies that amass giant license plate databases and drive around with skimmer cars that read and cache plates and location details. They have no regulation, oversight, and the courts have said its perfectly legal to track the location of hundreds of millions of vehicles and database them.
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