back to article 1.37bn records from somewhere to leak on Monday

“Data breach hunter” Chris Vickery has claimed that he will shortly reveal a “1.4 billion identity leak”. 1.4 billion identity leak story incoming Monday morning. Thanks go to @SteveD3 (and someone else) for cooperating on investigation. — Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) March 3, 2017 He later offered a teaser of the leak, …

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    1. DaLo

      Re: So what's next?

      " Has law enforcement been involved, can the police actually do something, will they actually do something, what?"

      From the article:

      Law enforcement was informed about the breach and the questionable activities it exposed. However, we cannot discuss those elements, because the agencies involved cannot comment on pending or ongoing investigations.

    2. uncommon_sense
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      The Man or The Message?

      Where are your sympathies:

      A Spammer, or a notorious ScareWare Pusher?

      This case sounds like:

      Pot, meet Enormously Huge Steam Locomotive

  1. wallyhall

    Full story (published Monday)

    It's RCM.

    <quote>At its core, RCM is a marketing firm that does email and SMS campaigns. While some of their work is legit, other campaigns ran by the company are questionable to say the least.</quote>

    Link to full story: http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-though-bad-backups.html#tk.twt_cso

  2. MaxM

    Food/Drink

    APPLE?

  3. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    1.37 Billion ...

    ... upvotes attached to a comment about poor database security?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I have no doubt some of my hundreds of disposable email addresses are on this list.

    I'd love to see the list so I can search for my emails and then block them. However can't imagine they'd simply release the list as that would be a little counter productive.

  5. Unbelievable!

    a bit more detailed article

    http://www.csoonline.com/article/3176433/security/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-through-bad-backups.html?page=2

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Answer is...

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/06/radioshack_bankruptcy_savior_bankrupt/

    It's the dump from the Radio Shack Customer Database of personal info gathered by their salespeople for every transaction since 1921! I'm in there, but I did use fake addresses from time to time. Okay, every time.

    It HAS to be!!1! :P

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