07-03-2017 13:52 via feedproxy.google.com

Email spammer unwittingly leaked data on 1.3 billion people

It’s bad enough we have to worry about spam emails promising discount medications and other shady deals. Now we have to be concerned that the spammers don’t accidentally leak user data they probably dubiously obtained.
A huge email marketing organization called River City Media failed to safeguard backups of its database of 1.34 billion email accounts, resulting in all that user information being available for anyone to see.
Chris Vickery, a MacKeeper security researcher, wrote Monda
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