Victory Phones Data Breach
What Happened
In January 2017, the automated telephony services company Victory Phones left a Mongo DB database publicly facing without a password. Subsequently, 213GB of data was downloaded by an unauthorised party including names, addresses, phone numbers and over 166k unique email addresses.
Compromised Data
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Affected Accounts:
166 thousand
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Breach Occurred:
January 2017
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Added to HIBP:
11 Oct 2017
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If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.
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