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I think that the right title should be "Marketing Firm Exactis Exposed a Personal Info Database with with 340M Records on Internet". This is not a leak, at leas
by mic47 8y ago
I think that the right title should be "Marketing Firm Exactis Exposed a Personal Info Database with with 340M Records on Internet". This is not a leak, at least there is no evidence of it yet. While this does not downplay this security "mishap", there is still big difference between "someone rob a bank" and "bank left their vaults open".
OTOH, it would be interesting to know how did they get hold on such data.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoUnusually for me I find your pedantry here too quibbling - even if the bank is left open taking the money is still theft (robbery is with threats/force in my jurisdiction, UK).
- azeotropic 8y agoThe point is there's no evidence a robbery occurred. Someone phoned the bank and told them they saw the vault was left open and that they had better count the money. Nobody knows whether anything was taken yet.
- spydum 8y agoWhat is messed up is if the firm doesn't have sufficient visibility/logging, they can claim "no evidence" the data was accessed (purely because they Had their eyes closed). IMHO that is negligent - but sadly the various laws tend to support it.
- pixl97 8y agoThe problem here is it may be impossible to know if anything was taken. If theft occurs at a bank, the money is gone. If I steal information, the information is still there. Knowledge of theft is completely dependent on a logging system capturing the correct information.
- astura 8y agoExcept what happened here was someone left the vault open and a passerby called the bank and the cops to let them know.