{"id":550,"date":"2017-08-30T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=550"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:54:55","slug":"over-711-million-email-addresses-exposed-from-spambot-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/over-711-million-email-addresses-exposed-from-spambot-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t despair, here is a link to a site that will tell you whether your email account has been breached. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\">https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/<\/a> \u00a0I am very careful and I was breached in 4 areas: Adobe breach 2012 (changed in 2014); LinkedIn in 2013 (changed in 2013); and 2 other sites that sold the 2 old breaches. \u00a0If you have been breached, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD TO A REAL PASSWORD! \u00a0And don&#8217;t use the same password for every site! \u00a0Get a password keeper to store and retrieve your passwords.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>A French security researcher, who uses online handle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benkow_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benkow<\/a>, has spotted the database on an<i>\u00a0&#8220;open and accessible&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0server containing a vast amount of email addresses, along with millions of SMTP credentials from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The database is hosted on the spambot server in Netherlands and is stored without any access controls, making the data publicly available for anyone to access without requiring any password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/08\/spambot-email-addresses.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1568.qm0ao08yu9.xwt\">read the article&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/08\/spambot-email-addresses.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1568.qm0ao08yu9.xwt\">Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t despair, here is a link to a site that will tell you whether your email account has been breached. \u00a0https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/ \u00a0I am very careful and I was breached in 4 areas: Adobe breach 2012 (changed in 2014); LinkedIn in 2013 (changed in 2013); and 2 other sites that sold the 2 old breaches. \u00a0If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}