Data Breach: PDL "Enrichment" Company 1.2B Peeps Impacted ... yeah, BILLION
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https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/
I didn't even know these kinds of things existed.
Getting pretty sick and tired of these kinds of hidden aggregators.
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Yeah I got the haveibeenpwned notification email. Grrrrr.
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There are many words in my vocabulary spanning rail crews, construction crews, and a couple decades as a mechanic, in several languages, that are still too polite for what I think of this and the peeps behind aggregating.
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I also got a notification from haveibeenpwned that quite a few of our user's email addresses were affected. What a perfect way to start out a Monday!
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Let's open our elastic search server to the world... I mean that is extremely stupid, worse than using the password
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<s> To be fair, setting up SSL and a login name and password does take extra effort. . give the poor sod a break </s>
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@DustinB3403 said in Data Breach: PDL "Enrichment" Company 1.2B Peeps Impacted ... yeah, BILLION:
<s> To be fair, setting up SSL and a login name and password does take extra effort. . give the poor sod a break </s>
Yeah and they weren't even bothered to whitelist IPs.
They should have SSL and strict whitelist preferably to a VPN IP that requires authentication.
