The Weekly Breach Breakdown Podcast: How Were 24 Billion Records Exposed? - S7E20
Welcome to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) Weekly Breach Breakdown for July 10, 2026. I'm Tim Walden. Thanks to SentiLink for their continued support of the podcast and the ITRC. Each week, we look at the most recent events and trends related to data security and privacy. This week, we are looking at one of the largest data exposures ever recorded, and it comes with a massive dose of irony. Researchers at Cybernews recently uncovered an open database holding a jaw-dropping 24 billion records, totaling more than 8.3 terabytes of personal information left completely unprotected on…
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