Data of More Than 3.5 Million Corporate America Workers Leaked

Just when you think the cases of massive leaks couldn’t get any worse, a new case emerges and completely tears apart all your expectations. This time, the case reached a new ground: corporate America, which has seen the personal identifying information of something as 33,698,126 people leaked online. However, as if the case didn’t seem bad enough, this leak came from Dun & Bradstreet services, a company that not too long ago was listed as the most ethical of 2017. While the file contained data for the United States alone, the level of concern increases drastically considering that the biggest slice of leaked information actually belongs to workers of pretty high-standard companies such as the U.S. Postal Service, AT&T, Wal-Mart, among others, with the U.S. Department of Defense being the most featured.

Sensitive data from Important corporations

Despite the fact that massive leaks don’t surprise us in the slightest, we still get very much concerned whenever they occur. Online security and privacy are two of the biggest flaws that are often exploited by hackers, especially in the case of bigger corporations that are built on trust. However, it is still unclear if the compromised information reached the hands of any online attacker as the company in question denied that their systems were violated in the first place. According to Troy Hunt, a security researcher, the leaked names, physical and e-mail addresses, contact phone numbers, job titles, employers, revenue and much more came from NetProspex, a service provided by Dun & Bradstreet, ironically designed to help companies with the development and management of their B2B (business-to-business) data.