Thanks to marketing firm Exactis based in Florida, the private data of millions of Americans has been leaked yet again. This new American data leak comprised of 2 terabytes of data that includes phone numbers, home addressees, email addresses, and other highly personal characteristics for every name in the database.
« It seems like this is a database with pretty much every US citizen in it, » says Troia, who is the founder of his own New York-based security company, Night Lion Security. Troia notes that almost every person he’s searched for in the database, he’s found. And when WIRED asked him to find records for a list of 10 specific people in the database, he very quickly found six of them. « I don’t know where the data is coming from, but it’s one of the most comprehensive collections I’ve ever seen, » he says.
Check It Out: American Data Leak Happened Yet Again
