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Victory Phones data breach (2017)

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.

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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 2017-01-01, Victory Phones was affected by a data breach. Approximately 166,046 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#VictoryPhones
  2. victoryphones.comhttps://victoryphones.com

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