INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A security researcher recently discovered an unsecured database online which contained the personal information of 1.2bn users including
their social media accounts, email addresses and phone numbers.A majority of the data contained in the database was collected by a company
provides its customers with easy access to work emails and social media account details of over 70 percent of the decision makers in the US,
The company scrapes this data from various sources online and on its website, People Data Labs explains that it can even deliver this data
individuals, delivered to you at the scale you need it
With just a few lines of code, you can begin enriching anywhere from dozens to billions of records with over 150 data points
found on a Google Cloud server and while it was originally sourced by People Data Labs, one of the company's customers was responsible for
leaving it unsecured.The company's co-founder and CEO, Sean Thorne explained that some of the exposed data did come from it though he
suspects that it was aggregated by another firm which was merging various data points.Vinny Troia was conducting a routine scan for
unprotected data online when he made the discovery of the four terabyte database, after which he notified the FBI
