"This information provides a full profile of these individuals and raises potentially concerning privacy considerations," he wrote in a report.
"This company used one database for multiple domains and used no segmentation other than folders named after the website," he told TechRepublic in an email.
Fowler believed that a property report ordered from SL Data Services would be stored in a database that the customer could access through a web portal.
During that week, the number of records it contained increased by over 150,000. It is unknown how long the database was publicly accessible, nor if anyone accessed it.
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