Two security researchers have uncovered four billion records on 1.2 billion people on an unsecured Elasticsearch server impacting what is estimated to be hundreds of millions of people.
The data itself comes from the data aggregator and enrichment companies People Data Labs (PDL) and OxyData.Io and contains basic personal information, such as names, home and mobile phone numbers and email addresses and what may be information scraped from LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media sources, Vinny Troia reported.
Over 1.5 billion unique people, including close to 260 million in the U.S.
Over 1 billion personal email addresses. Work email for 70%+ decision makers in the US, UK, and Canada.
Over 420 million LinkedIn URLs.
Over 1 billion Facebook URLs and IDs.
400 million plus phone numbers with more than 200 million U.S.-based valid cell phone numbers.
Doing their due diligence, the firms were contacted and each denied ownership of the servers. This was true as was found that the information attributed to PDL was stored on Google Cloud while the PDL API appears to use Amazon Web Services.
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