Seattle data gathering firm LocalBlox Inc. is the latest company to expose data via a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage instance ā a lot of data. In this case, in involved 48 million records relating to social media information.
Discovered by Chris Vickery atĀ UpGuard Inc., as all good S3 data exposures are, the dataĀ relatedĀ to tens of millions of people that LocalBlox hadĀ gathered from social media platforms, including physical addresses, dates of birth, āscrapedā data from LinkedIn and Facebook, Twitter handles and more. As Vickery explainedĀ in a blog post, the data builds aĀ āthree-dimensional picture of every individual affected ā who they are, what they talk about, what they like, even what they do for a living ā in essence a blueprint from which to create targeted persuasive content, like advertising or political campaigning.ā
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