1.2 billion records found on server

[Eldorado]

"For well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people's accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them.

"In October, dark web researcher Vinny Troia found one such trove sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server, comprising 4 terabytes of personal information—about 1.2 billion records in all.

"While the collection is impressive for its sheer volume, the data doesn't include sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, or Social Security numbers. It does, though, contain profiles of hundreds of millions of people that include home and cell phone numbers, associated social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Github, work histories seemingly scraped from LinkedIn, almost 50 million unique phone numbers, and 622 million unique email addresses.

"It’s bad that someone had this whole thing wide open," Troia says.

Full momty at Wired dot com: https://www.wired.com/story/billion-records-exposed-online/

And at cNet: https://www.cnet.com/news/1-2-billion-records-exposed-in-unsecured-database/

Edited November 23, 2019 by Eldorado