• World-class spamming operation River City Media exposes their OWN data with bad backups

    Posted on March 6, 2017 at 11:41 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Steve Ragan at CSO has the breaking story:

    Faulty Rsync setup exposes River City Media’s entire operation… Nobody would knowingly give their email address to spammers, so they have to be tricked into it. Usually, there is some kind of offer for a ‘free gift’ in exchange for giving up an email address and personal information. The fine print of these offers allows the company to share their address with their ‘partners’ which ends up also being their partner’s partners, and their partner’s partner’s partners, until every spammer on the planet has their address

    Fascinating, well-reported story of 1.37 billion (with a “b”) leaked records.

    Expect to hear reverberations from this for months.

    Thx to @Microfix

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