Security News > 2020 > February > Israeli Marketing Company Exposes Contacts Database

The owner of the data is Straffic.io, which describes itself as a "Private performance marketing network." According to its Facebook page, the company was founded in June 2017.

"As of now, all systems are secure, and we did not find evidence of any data misuse or data loss. We continue to investigate and will notify if we find evidence to the contrary. Although we do our very best to protect the security of our service and deeply regret such a vulnerability has been found on our service, it is impossible to create a totally immune system, and these things can occur."

Troy Hunt, a data breach expert and creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification site, says Straffic's notification "Has to be one of the worst disclosure notices I've seen."

In some countries or jurisdictions, the data that was exposed could qualify as a reportable data breach.

Hunt says there are so many data aggregators now that it's impossible for people to know which organizations have their their data.

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