“Chances are that you, or at least someone you know, is affected.” 
Today
as I write this, One of the world’s largest spam email operations has
accidentally leaked its entire database of almost 1.4 billion email
addresses because of carelessness when carrying out a routine backup.
As well as email addresses the leaked data also included names, IP addresses and mailing addresses, according to security researchers at MacKeeper.
The
data was reportedly leaked from from a US based email marketing company
called River City Media who send out more than one billion emails per
day. According to TechCrunch, the company previously has worked with the
likes of Nike, AT&T and Gillette.
The
massive haul of leaked data was discovered in January, said security
expert Chris Vickery from MacKeeper, after he found a remote backup
stored online without any form of security or password protection.
1.4 BILLION email addresses leaked online due to spammer’s dodgy back up
The data breach is so large that the Indian government have
since been forced to issue a statement denying that it was their data
that had been leaked. The county’s federal identity system database
being one of the few in the world to contain details of more than one
billion people.
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