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Email addresses of almost a BILLION people are leaked...

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Victoria Bell

Email addresses from 982 million people were listed in what researchers are calling one of the 'biggest and most comprehensive email database' breaches ever.

Personal information including names, gender, date of birth, employer, details of social media accounts and even home addresses were listed. 

Security researchers uncovered the breach in an online database created by Verifications.io that had no privacy protections in place.  

The firm offered an 'enterprise email validation' service that let other marketing firms check whether lists of email addresses they have harvested are real. 

Verifications.io took down their website after the leak was uncovered and they have refused requests for a comment on the situation.

Little is known about the people behind the business with its backers maintaining their anonymity due to the dubious tactics it employs.

The website went offline after Cyber security expert Bob Diachenko, one of the researchers who found the breach, notified its support team.


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