Researcher spotted open database before criminals … we hope
More than 600,000 sensitive files containing thousands of people's criminal histories, background checks, vehicle and property records were exposed to the internet in a non-password protected database belonging to data brokerage SL Data Services, according to a security researcher.
While court records and sex offender status are usually public records in the US, this exposed cache could be combined with other data points to make complete profiles of people – along with their family members and co-workers – providing everything criminals would need for targeted phishing and/or social engineering attacks.
Earlier this year, digital thieves ransacked another background check firm and then later listed – for $3.5 million on a cybercrime forum – what the crooks claimed to beNational Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
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