Over 33mn US employee records, including military personnel, had their data hacked
A database containing more than 33 million records of corporate and government employees has been leaked online, including records from the Department of Defense, US Postal Service, Wal-Mart, and Ohio State University.
The database belongs to Dun & Bradstreet which licenses information on businesses and corporations for use in credit decisions, business-to-business marketing, and supply chain management. In 2013, they held over 225 million business records from companies around the globe.
The leak of the 52.2 Gigabyte corporate database from the business services firm contains millions of people’s names, work email addresses, phone numbers, and the companies they work for, along with their job titles, ZDNet reports.
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