Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

With reasonable verification, anyone confirmed to be a part of this breach should be given access to the data, if only for good will. It's a sad state to see that the recklessness (or incompetence) of one entity, and at that a private one, can quickly become a domino in a chain that ends in toppling a person's privacy.

They advertise themselves as having the most accurate data (why wouldn't they advertise themselves this way?) If so, the people it affects have a right to know, and it seems that they have the means to contact them and let them know.

Re: Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

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Post by psergeant » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

I wonder what’ll happen if they’ve sucked up a bunch of European data too

Re: Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

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Post by microcolonel » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:02 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #2

And... no one will go to jail.

Who exactly should go to jail, and what would that help?

For all the do-something-ism in the world, doing "something" often amounts to making things worse, while allowing actual avenues for improvement to fester.

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Post by gigatexal » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:05 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #2

And... no one will go to jail.

If jail time was a real concern for owning data like this maybe fewer companies would exist owning such data. The he potential for people to use this to steal identities is too high I think

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Post by chatman » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:08 AM UTC

And, they made fun of RMS... He was telling you what the future holds. This is just a trailer of what is to come.

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Post by aalleavitch » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:11 AM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #6

azinman2 wrote: post #2

And... no one will go to jail.

Who exactly should go to jail, and what would that help? For all the do-something-ism in the world, doing "something" often amounts to making things worse, while allowing actual avenues for improvement to fester.

What will help?

Re: Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

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Post by aalleavitch » Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:13 AM UTC

This is laughable. Data security is a fairy-tale. We've all been bought and sold and there is nothing any of us can do to fix it.