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809 Million Records Exposed: Major Data Breach in Email Marketing

Calendar Mar 08, 2019 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Data breaches are so common now that your eyes may tend to gloss over the news of yet-another public exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) and customer records.

Even in such a world, however, sometimes a case which tops many others still enters the public domain -- such as the discovery of a database which has been described as "perhaps the biggest and most comprehensive email database I have ever reported" by the researcher who uncovered the breach.

According to Bob Diachenko, alongside security researcher Vinny Troia, the 150GB MongoDB instance in questioncontained four separate collectionsof data.

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