Personal data for 1.2 billion people was discovered in an open Elasticsearch server. Movie magic screenwriter. It’s unclear who owned the server, how the data got there, who had access to it, and how long sat in the open, free for anyone to access.
The more than 4 terabytes of data was discovered by security researchers from Data Viper. Unlike other troves, this simple database didn’t hold user names and passwords, but personal data, such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIn, and Facebook profiles, scrapped off the Internet.
This type of information is collected online from social media accounts that allow public access, and it seems that there’s no shortage of people who don’t know that the whole world has access to their data, which most of the time includes stuff you wouldn’t knowingly give strangers.
“For a very low price, data enrichment companies allow you to take a single piece of information on a person (such as a name or email address), and expand (or enrich) that user profile to include hundreds of additional new data points of information,” says security researcher Vinny Troia. “Collected information on a single person can include information such as household sizes, finances and income, political and religious preferences, and even a person’s preferred social activities.”
Verifications.io remains offline since it was informed that it had internet-exposed 763 million records. (Source: Internet Archive) Verifications.io, a self-described 'big data email verification. Verifications.io provides enterprise email validation – a way for marketers to check that email addresses on their mailing lists are valid and active before sending marketing emails. This time the email validation service Verifications.io has leaked a large database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 2 billion individuals. Mar 08, 2019 An unprotected 140+ GB MongoDB database led to the discovery of a huge collection of 808,539,939 email records, with many of them also containing detailed personally identifiable information (PII). Mar 09, 2019 Experts found an unprotected server exposing online 4 MongoDB databases belonging to the email validation company Verifications.io. A new mega data leak made the headlines, an unprotected MongoDB database (150GB) belonging to a marketing company exposed up to 809 million records. The archive includes 808,539,849 records containing: emailrecords = 798,171,891 records emailWithPhone = 4,150,600.
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It turned out that few companies provide data “enrichment” as a service, and most of the data found in the Elasticsearch server was identified as belonging to People Data Labs (PDL). One interesting point is that the PDL data contains education histories, which the mystery server doesn’t list.
Finally, since PDL denies suffering a breach, it’s challenging to find someone accountable. The open Elasticsearch server doesn’t seem to have any link to PDL, and Google Cloud hosted the information. This also means it’s impossible to know, without a court order, who set it up. The FBI and other law agencies won’t get involved unless a crime was committed, and technically that’s not the case, at least not yet.
July 15, 2020 at 10:27 PM This post was last modified: July 22, 2020 at 12:39 AM by Omnipotent. Edited 12 times in total.
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Today I have uploaded the Verifications Database for you to download for free, thanks for reading and enjoy!
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In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach. Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although an archived copy remains viewable.
I would like to warn users this leak is 175GB uncompressed and 37.5GB compressed.
Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
Today I have uploaded the Verifications Database for you to download for free, thanks for reading and enjoy!
|Notes|
In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach. Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although an archived copy remains viewable.
I would like to warn users this leak is 175GB uncompressed and 37.5GB compressed.
Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
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This download consists of 66 .bson.json files (I deleted some due to being null), furthermore please note that there are no passwords in this leak. The .7z File's MD5 Hash is 904F8BB5659B055F5047206E3EF08851. Total record count of 763117241.
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