#data breach

Jeremiah Fowler, a cybersecurity researcher has reported that there is a non-password database with over 1.2 million records. That database happens to be the Philippine police employee records. Fowler is unable to vouch for the legitimacy or correctness of the materials in the database. "As an ethical researcher, I cannot further confirm or verify the accuracy or authenticity of these documents contained within this database. There are 1,279,437 exposed records in the database, which has an overall size of 817.54 GB. Data breaches are rampant nowadays and have also put ordinary users like you and me at risk. Like the recently reported breach, compromised email addresses and passwords that are possibly used for work, social media accounts, and financial services, are left open to be used by cybercriminals. A data breach, by definition, "is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so." Data like your email addresses and passwords should not be exposed or released to the public or to any entity that can't be trusted. Read more in our articles including "PNP employee records leaked in data breach" and "What to do if your accounts have been compromised".