While you've likely never heard of them, validators play a crucial role in the email marketing industry. The database, owned by the "email validation" firm Verifications.io, was taken offline the same day Diachenko reported it to the company.
This diversity may stem from the information's source. The trove is not only massive but also unusual it contains data about individual consumers as well as what appears to be "business intelligence data," like employee and revenue figures from various companies. The pair are going public with their findings today. Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing 150 gigabytes of detailed, plaintext marketing data-including 763 million unique email addresses. In fact, it's only grown bigger-and more confounding. But increased awareness hasn't slowed the problem. By this point, you've hopefully gotten the message that your personal data can end up exposed in all sorts of unexpected internet backwaters.
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