Verifications.io breach

Verifications.io Breach
Posted on 03/11/2019
It's happened again.  The details are below on the latest data breach.

Breach: Verifications.io
Date of breach: 25 Feb 2019
Accounts found: 763,117,241
Your accounts: 161

Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses

Description: In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach. Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although an archived copy remains viewable.


More info: https://securitydiscovery.com/800-million-emails-leaked-online-by-email-verification-service/