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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:43 AM Mar 2017

PII (Personal Identifying Information) of 33,698,126 Americans leaked online

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3181325/security/pii-of-33-698-126-americans-leaked-online.html

The personal identifying information (PII)—names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, employers and job titles—for 33,698,126 Americans has been leaked online.

The data, a 52.2GB CSV file, came from a commercial corporate database. Security researcher Troy Hunt determined that the breach came from NetProspex, a service provided by Dun & Bradstreet, which ironically was named as a 2017 world’s most ethical company.

The leaked database is currently listed as the 16th biggest breach on Have I Been Pwned, meaning more people were affected than in the Ashley Madison breach and fewer than in the Last.fm breach. Hunt wrote on HIBP:

In 2016, a list of of 33 million individuals in corporate America sourced from Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex service was leaked online. D&B believe the targeted marketing data was lost by a customer who purchased it from them. It contained extensive personal and corporate information including names, email addresses, job titles and general information about the employer.

Compromised data: Email addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses