ApexSMS Inc., a SMS text marketing company that also trades under the name of Mobile Drip, has suffered a data breach with the records of about 80 million people found exposed on an unsecured database.
First reported Thursday by researcher Bob Diachenko at Security Discovery, the breach of a database owned by the company was first detected on April 11. It included hashed email addresses, names, city locations, IP address, phone number and carrier network for mobile.
Not a lot is known about the company other than it’s allegedly a text-messaging spamming operation that undertakes so-called SMS “bombing” campaigns. According to Diachenko, an SMS bomber is a software program that duplicates the same message multiple times or rotates different messages and sends all the messages to a particular number. It apparently can be used for pranks, harassment or marketing campaigns.
Ben Goodman, vice president of global strategy and innovation at ForgeRock Inc., told
Article source: https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/09/80m-records-exposed-sms-spam-company-apexsms-data-breach/
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