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Anotherbackground checkcompany suffered a data breach; this time, more than 600,000 people were affected.
The company in question, SL Data Services, was discovered online.
It was publicly exposed and not password-protected or encrypted.
Cybersecurity researcherJeremiah Fowlerdiscovered the breach (or lack of protection on the files).
Everything was contained in PDF files, most of which were labeled “background check.”
There was a total of 713.1GB of files in the database.
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After the responsible disclosure notice was sent, it took a week before SL Data Services made it unavailable.
A whole week is a long time to have 600,000 people have their information sitting in publicly accessible files.
Unfortunately, those with data in the breach might not even know their information was included.
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