{"id":1442,"date":"2019-11-23T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T03:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2019-11-23T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T03:19:26","slug":"1-2-billion-people-exposed-in-data-leak-includes-personal-info-linkedin-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/1-2-billion-people-exposed-in-data-leak-includes-personal-info-linkedin-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2 billion people exposed in data leak includes personal info, LinkedIN, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another data leak, this time involving, let&#8217;s see, <em>1.2 billion<\/em> people. This was found by security researchers in an unsecured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastic.co\/\">ElasticSearch<\/a> server &#8211; the server is now down. According to analysis, the data most likely comes from data enrichment companies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion people, making this one of the largest data leaks from a single source organization in history. The leaked data contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIN and Facebook profile information.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFor 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataviper.io\/blog\/2019\/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people\/\">1.2 billion people exposed in data leak includes personal info, LinkedIN, Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another data leak, this time involving, let&#8217;s see, 1.2 billion people. This was found by security researchers in an unsecured ElasticSearch server &#8211; the server is now down. According to analysis, the data most likely comes from data enrichment companies. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}