The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points • Hacker News Board

Re: The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

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Post by lostmsu » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 4:52 AM UTC

sushid wrote: post #12

lostmsu wrote: post #4

In 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.

With that kind of info you could compute various societal statistics on occupation. Including, for example, being able to see if any large company has minorities underrepresented in higher-level positions.

Re: The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

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Post by abricot » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 8:09 AM UTC

syncerr wrote: post #15

Apollo has a page on how to have your data removed. Simply request it by emailing support@apollo.io or remove@apollo.io. https://www.apollo.io/legal

Too late.

Re: The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

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Post by jaclaz » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 1:32 PM UTC

I may be missing something, but the net effect of this kind of breach is seemingly not that (like the case of a data breach of a "single" company user database) of having "reserved" data (that only the company had and that was given to it with an expectation in good faith by the user to keep it safe) in the hands of someone else, it is more like having data that was already available to anyone for a fee in the hands of someone that didn't pay that fee.

Re: The Apollo Breach Included Billions of Data Points

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Post by ehPReth » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #16

fooey wrote: post #7

Earlier 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.

Mine was an account for Plivo.

Plivo here as well