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Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult
- MoBattah 8y agoTitle is misleading.
- colejohnson66 8y agoThis is basically a link only article. Here’s the original source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have-exposed-personal-information-of-almost-every-american-adult-2018-06-27 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have... @mods Can we update the link?
- testplzignore 8y agoThe Wired link is the original source: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/ https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio...
- sctb 8y agoThanks! We've updated the link from https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-have-leaked-personal-data-of-almost-every-american-adult/ https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-....
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- jakeliman 8y agoI wouldn’t call this a link only article. It seems like a nifty little aggregation and summary site.
- astura 8y agoThat link is just summarizing this link: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/ https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio...
- georgecmu 8y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140
- ComodoHacker 8y agoThe original source, in case anyone's interested: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/ https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio... They've left their ElasticSearch instance naked on the internet, which was found by the researcher using Shodan.
- larkeith 8y agoDirect link to article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have-exposed-personal-information-of-almost-every-american-adult-2018-06-27 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have... (Current address is another site that blockquotes the majority of the article).
- dang 8y agoGood catch. Changed from https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-have-leaked-personal-data-of-almost-every-american-adult/ https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-.... Submitters: we'd appreciate it if you'd check before submitting to make sure an article isn't obviously lifted from some other source. When it is, please submit that source instead. It's the fair thing to do, and also the site rules ask for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Edit: actually looks like the original source is a wired.com article that the marketwatch.com article points to. Since there was an earlier submission of that one, we'll merge this thread there.
- dang 8y agoMost comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140.