Security News > 2017 > August > Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server (The Hackers News)
2017-08-30 01:25
A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind. A French security researcher, who uses online handle Benkow, has spotted the database on an "open and accessible" server containing a vast amount of email addresses, along with millions of SMTP
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