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Alteryx hack is huge! 123 million US households
2017-12-22

Irvine CA

120 Million American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak

Information on more than 120 million American households was sitting in a massive database found left exposed on the web earlier this month, Forbes has been told. It included an extraordinary range of personal details on residents, including addresses, ethnicity, interests and hobbies, income, right down to what kind of mortgage the house was under and how many children lived at the property. In total, there were 248 different data fields for each household, according to the researcher who uncovered the leak data this week.



Posted by:3dc

#5  Equifax should have been Executed. That would have served as a wakeup call for the industry.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-12-22 13:25  

#4  Are there any financial penalties associated with jackassery like this? I would term this gross negligence. Companies trafficking in personal data - and these days, that's really everyone - need to have respectable security or risk fines/jail/ass-kicking. Equifax anyone?
Posted by: Glomosing Omainter7636   2017-12-22 10:19  

#3  It's been in the hands of telemarketers for years. Horse, barn door.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2017-12-22 08:04  

#2  Not a a hack. The data wa sitting there for the world to see.

So long as data is stored in the cloud or on internet-connected private servers, incompetence will guarantee it will be made available to the bad guys.
Posted by: KBK   2017-12-22 08:01  

#1  all your data are belong us.
Posted by: Captain Grundy1029   2017-12-22 05:03  

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