1 Social Media Profiles Data Leak – 4 Billion Records In October, Diachenko and Troia found a trove of data exposed and easily accessible to the public on an unsecured server, which contained 4 terabytes of PII, or about 4 billion records. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion people, making this one of the largest data leaks from a single source organization in history, Troia and Diachenko say. The leaked data contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIn and Facebook Profile information. The discovered Elastic Search server containing all of the information was unprotected and accessible via a web browser. No password or authentication of any kind was needed to access or download all of the data. 2. Orvibo Leaked Database – 2 Billion Records In July, Rotem and Locar discovered an open database linked to Orvibo Smart Home products, exposing more than 2 billion records. According to the researchers, Orvibo, which runs an IoT platform, claims to have around a million users, including private individuals who connected their homes, as well as hotels and other businesses with Orvibo smart home devices. The data breach affected users from around the world. Rotem and Locar found logs [...]