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Data Breach Leaks 198M Car Buyers’ Personal Data

September 15, 2019
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Data Breach Leaks 198M Car Buyers’ Personal Data

September 15, 2019
A massive data breach has compromised the records of 198 million car buyers. Jeremiah Fowler, a senior security researcher at Security Discovery, discovered the breach after coming across the same 413GB dataset multiple times. “It was clear that this was a compilation of potential car buyers wanting more information,” Fowler said, telling Forbes that the data […]