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ApexSMS data breach (2019)

In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password.

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ApexSMS
records
23.2M
SectorTelecom

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2019-04-15, ApexSMS was affected by a data breach. Approximately 23,246,481 accounts were exposed. In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ApexSMS

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