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(Bloomberg) –A database aggregating 1.2 billion users' personalinformation, including social media accounts, email addresses andphone numbers, was discovered unprotected on a server last month. So far,it's not clear how it got there.
Most of the data was collected by a companycalled People Data Labs, said Vinny Troia, chief executiveofficer of Night Lion Security, which is based in St.Louis. People Data Labs provides work emails and social mediaaccount details for what the company claims is a billion and a halfpeople. That data is scraped from various sources and sold as a wayto contact "70%+ decision makers in the US, UK and Canada,"according to the company's website.
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