Apollo, formerly known as ZenProspect, YC Winter 2016 class.
Unlikely they're not active on HN. Maybe they could elaborate on how this happened.
Wonder how hard GDPR fines are going to hit them.
also only notified by haveibeenpwned
The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points
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#12In all these breaches I wonder if the data ends up public. Might serve good to sciences.
It has peoples names, phone numbers, job titles, and current places of employment. I don't see how that level of compromise is good for the sciences.
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#13Can I check what data Apollo had on me?
If you are a EU citizen then GDPR should allow you to request it since they are clearly operating in the EU if you are from the EU and got notified.
Email them and say that you are making a GDPR subject access request. They have 30 days to respond.
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#14My work contact information has been in the Apollo, Exactis, and NetProspex breaches. I have no idea how my information ever got in these databases. Have I been pwned sent the only notifications I got about these breaches. Does anyone maintain a list of these services I can preemptively get my information removed from?
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#15Apollo has a page on how to have your data removed. Simply request it by emailing support@apollo.io or remove@apollo.io.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't even know who Apollo was until I got that email
I still haven't figured out who they are, but my email account that was compromised was made specifically for Heroku. Thanks to haveibeenpwned.com for the heads up.
Mine was an account for Plivo.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still haven't figured out who they are, but my email account that was compromised was made specifically for Heroku. Thanks to haveibeenpwned.com for the heads up.
The one that I got a hit for was made specifically for New Relic. Is this some kind of sales platform or what? It's so tiresome to have your email become the town bike the moment any SaaS gets their hands on it.
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#18I once ran a social media marketing organization where we were very good about not scraping data outside of the terms and conditions of the networks we interacted with.
In so many of these breaches we're seeing cases where these analytics firms have data scraped from networks that is well in violation of terms - not mistakenly, but wanton disregard for data usage policies of those networks.
Why is nothing ever done about that?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't even know who Apollo was until I got that email
I still haven't figured out who they are, but my email account that was compromised was made specifically for Heroku. Thanks to haveibeenpwned.com for the heads up.
Maybe NewRelic is a customer and Apollo slurped up all their Salesforce contacts (aka NewRelic users)?
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#20I once ran a social media marketing organization where we were very good about not scraping data outside of the terms and conditions of the networks we interacted with. In so many of these breaches we're seeing cases where these analytics firms have data scraped from networks that is well in violation of terms - not mistakenly, but wanton disregard for data usage policies of those networks. Why is nothing ever done a…
we need gdpr in the us