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World-class spamming operation River City Media exposes their OWN data with bad backups
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Therefore, the analysis showed that the River City Media Company was sending out more than a billion spam emails on a daily basis. Image Source: CSO Online – Examples of offers emailed by River City Media. The pwned community on Reddit. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. 1.4 billion email addresses and other information leaked from the spamming group River City Media. (mackeeper.com) submitted 1 year ago by Dyslectic_Sabreur. I guess my question then is how do I remove my email from their spam list to begin with?
Steve Ragan at CSO has the breaking story:
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Faulty Rsync setup exposes River City Media’s entire operation… Nobody would knowingly give their email address to spammers, so they have to be tricked into it. Usually, there is some kind of offer for a ‘free gift’ in exchange for giving up an email address and personal information. The fine print of these offers allows the company to share their address with their ‘partners’ which ends up also being their partner’s partners, and their partner’s partner’s partners, until every spammer on the planet has their address
A faulty backup has inadvertently exposed the entire working database of notorious spam operator River City Media (RCM). In all, the database contains more than 1.37 billion email addresses,. The database belongs to River City Media (RCM), a group that purports to be a legitimate marketing company. In reality, RCM is a spamming operation that sends out up to 1 billion spam emails per day.
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Fascinating, well-reported story of 1.37 billion (with a “b”) leaked records.
Expect to hear reverberations from this for months.
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Many of the massive data breaches you've read about over the past few years are the result of incredibly sophisticated hacking -- the infamous Yahoo! incidents, for example. There are other ways data leaks out that are incredibly un-sophisticated. Sometimes all it takes is someone careless when setting up a backup.Some of those documents show just how profitable spamming can be. One leaked text references a single day of activity that targeted Gmail users with 18 million emails and AOL users with another 15 million. The total take: around $36,000.
Image: Chris Vickery/MacKeeper
Chris Vickery/MacKeeperHow does a group that's reportedly made up of about 12 individuals amass a mailing list with 1.4 billion addresses and send tens of millions of emails in a single day? Through 'automation, years of research, and fair bit of illegal hacking techniques,' Vickery states. It's also not uncommon for spammers to share their databases or harvest email addresses when hackers dump them online.
That might explain how you end up on mailing lists that try to sell you everything from generic drugs to car loans. Even if you're extremely careful about giving out your primary email address all it takes is one legitimate service you registered for being hacked and you're sunk.
The Silver Lining
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While it's incredibly unnerving to read about leaks of personal information on this scale, there's some good news here. Also among the data that RCM leaked: numerous IP addresses that helped Vickery, Ragan, and Spamhaus -- an international organization that maintains and distributes anti-spam lists to email providers -- to identify key components of the spammers' infrastructure.
Their exposure allowed Spamhaus to blacklist RCM's extensive network. In the short term, you may notice a drop in the number of spam emails you see in your inbox.
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It may be an incredibly short break, however. Given that the good guys discovered RCM's data, it's reasonable to assume that some very bad guys found it, too.