I've gotten some strange spam phone calls this last week, including like 3 from Egypt. Wonder if this is why.
Probably unrelated. These security researchers found this open database, it doesn't necessarily mean someone else found it.
Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
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Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
They offer security as a paid feature.
Actually it comes for free now with the standard ES distribution. https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-no...
>Security for Elasticsearch is now free
What a horrific title. Even simply typing that should have been a blinking neon sign to them that they had their priorities in the wrong order.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article says it is "Company 2: OxyData.Io (OXY)"* ( http://oxydata.io )
OxyData and OxyLabs seem to be sister companies[1]: the former sells data as a product, the latter sells scraping as a service. [1] https://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09...
Tesonet is true cancer. I am amazed how unethical (and successful) they are.
Knowing how quickly it's expanding, do the employees are just as unethical or they do not connect the dots (company got too big)?
I hate fb, et al as any other person here, but most of people know that "if it's free - you are the product". Though with NordVPN users are paying money and are getting stabbed in the back.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
are you sure? how did you come to that conclusion. thanks for the info though, very glad to hear it.
Yes, there are dozens of these data enrichment companies. They scrape public sites and use browser extensions, SaaS tools, inbox addons, etc. They mix it together into profiles, and pretty much have the same dataset by now. Clearbit is one of them and even a YC company.
Yep! And as someone who has worked with these data sets and worked on the scraping tools on services like LinkedIn, a lot of the data is outdated, incorrect, or mixing together different entities with the same name into one person or splitting the same person into separate entities incorrectly.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#265When will people start going to prison for stuff like this?
When there's a law against it and there's evidence of breaking that law.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#266It should be illegal for any company to store my private information like this. The 'anonymous' sharing of my information is easily de-anonymized. Sites asking for your phone number for "security purposes" are a joke. You just have to accept that absolutely everything you've done online is public information. If it isn't now, it is being stored and future tools / databases will make what is either difficult to access…
Using phone number as an example of private information is pretty hilarious. Remember when the phone company used to literally print your name and phone number in a book and send it to everyone in your town? Man, their security was terrible!
But it works perfectly fine as a two-factor auth mechanism to prove that whoever setup the account is the same person trying to log into it at some later time.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
OxyData and OxyLabs seem to be sister companies[1]: the former sells data as a product, the latter sells scraping as a service. [1] https://vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-08-24-09...
Tesonet is true cancer. I am amazed how unethical (and successful) they are. Knowing how quickly it's expanding, do the employees are just as unethical or they do not connect the dots (company got too big)? I hate fb, et al as any other person here, but most of people know that "if it's free - you are the product". Though with NordVPN users are paying money and are getting stabbed in the back.
> do the employees are just as unethical
Most people's ethics are easily bought. Does working for a company that operates with questionable integrity outweigh providing a stable income for your family?
Remember Facebook is still a very highly desirable company to work at.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#268The IP address in question does not seem to be working at this time. Clearly whoever runs the server has shut off access. I wonder if someone managed to save a data dump somewhere?
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They asked about LinkedIn, where the content is gated behind a login. If it was a rate limiting problem, that would be trivial. Needing to be logged in as the same user defeats the purpose of proxying to hide your physical origin. Registering thousands of different users to use in a distributed way is hard now that they require a text message verification for new accounts.
Public LinkedIn profiles (which is many of them) are open to scrapers and they lost a court case about it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
I go to LinkedIn without being logged in and nearly always get a login gate instead of the profile.
They were ordered to unblock hiQ specifically, they were not ordered to open up content to scrapers generally.
They can still throttle high volume traffic and put up captchas. I think the only specific thing the court ordered was for them to unblock hiQ IP ranges.
Re: Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
#270People data labs's data is pretty accurate. Here is mine: https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v4/person?api_key=9c6a1382204... You can try it for yourself by changing the email. All of the information is public, so I don't mind. They are basically doing data integration.
Ah, looks like everyone's using that API key, I got 2 queries for my addresses and got a "rate limit exceeded" message. Strangely it only says I work in real estate (no I don't) when I looked up the email address I use for LinkedIn...
Here's mine eaca37c25ca1a9c5d85efb8cbaf1742b4fbfeee0054d713961176ab9500c2f2b