Block Buster: How 48 Million Personal Data Records Were Exposed

LocalBlox, a company that describes itself as a “Global Customer Intelligence Platform to search, combine and validate deep business and people profiles,” left exposed a cloud storage repository containing over 48 million records detailing private and personally identifiable information about a likely similar number of individuals. Revealing such data as names, addresses, internet behavior, and even strong hints as to individuals’ financial histories and medical backgrounds, this incident highlights just how readily personal information can be harvested online by private companies - and, with a simple misconfiguration, how easily these data stores can leak onto the public internet.

Learn in this upcoming webinar hosted by UpGuard Cyber Risk Team analyst Dan O’Sullivan about how this cloud leak occurred and what was revealed. With public concern over the use of personal data by tech companies at a fever pitch today, find out how such exposures actually occur, and how they can impinge upon personal privacy on a large scale. This webinar will discuss how such cloud leaks occur, and detail how any enterprise dealing with any type of privileged information can begin to mitigate the cyber risk that invites events such as this one.

Register now for this live webinar, concluding with a questions and answers session with an UpGuard analyst. Learn not only how UpGuard discovered and helped to secure this data breach, but about the fundamental issues of cyber risk driving the ever-growing strength of such exposures across the digital landscape.