Exactis,
the marketing anddataaggregation
firm, was the subject of adatabreach
in which customer information ended up on the Internet for hackers or
anyone else to view.
But
if theExactisleak
does in fact include 230 million people's information, that would make
it one of the largest in years, bigger even than 2017's Equifax breach
of 145.5 million people'sdata,
though smaller than the Yahoohackthat
affected 3 billion accounts, revealed last October.
If
you're a US citizen, your personal information -- your phone number,
home address, email address, even how many children you have -- may
have just become easily available to hackers in an alleged massivedataleak.
Florida-based marketing anddataaggregation
firmExactisexposed
a database ...
Another
day, another huge databasehack.
Earlier this month, security researcher Vinny Troia discovered thatExactis,
a Palm Coast, Florida-baseddatabroker,
had exposed a database that contained close to 340 million individual
records on a publicly accessible server.
Exactisis
a marketingdatacompany
that provides companies with the sort of information needed to target
ads to people browsing ... Should CISOs Be Hackers? 0 Comments.
A
massive trove of consumerdatacontaining
information on as many as 230 million consumers and 110 million
businesses may have been exposed by U.S. marketing firmExactis.
You've
probably never heard of the marketing anddataaggregation
firmExactis.
... While it's far from clear if any criminal or malicious hackers
have ...
Some
of your most personal information may have been made available to
hackers. Getty Images If you're a US citizen, your personal
information — your phone number, home address, email address, even how
many children you have — may have just become easily available to
hackers in an alleged massivedataleak.Florida-based
marketing anddata
Exactis:
340 million people ... home address, email address, even how many
children you have — has become easily available to hackers in a
massivedataleak.
...
It's
probably only a matter of time before another company in Equifax orExactis'datagathering
industry suffers ... Mozilla Tests Tool That Reveals if Hackers Have
...
Ticketmaster
UK trades blame with chat app provider over paymentdatabreach;
Newly RevealedExactisDataLeak
Bigger Than ... personaldatastolen
by hackers;
CNET:Exactissaid
to have exposed 340 million records, more than Equifax breach. "If
you're a US citizen, your personal information -- your phone number,
home address, email address, even how many children you have -- may
have just become easily available to hackers in an alleged massivedataleak."