CenturyLink customer details exposed online, 2.8 million records leaked

guest · Oct 18, 2019

CenturyLink customer details exposed online, 2.8 million records leaked
Personal information including name, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers was exposed online
October 18, 2019
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/centurylink-data-leak/

A database of 2.8m records containing sensitive information regarding hundreds of thousands of CenturyLink’s customers was left open online for anyone with internet access to see. The records making up the database were logs from a third party notification platform used by CenturyLink. They included multiple pieces of personal information including name, email address, phone number, and address, along with account-specific information.

Comparitech discovered the exposed MongoDB database in collaboration with security researcher Bob Diachenko. The discovery was made on September 15th and Diachenko notified CenturyLink that day, but the database had already been exposed for many months by that point. As of September 17th, it was closed.
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink is the sixth-largest broadband internet provider in the US with about 4.8 million subscribers as of Q1 2019.
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