Organizations that aggregate large volumes of data will always be targets, however low-profile they might appear to be to the public. Verifications.io-believed to be located either in Boca Raton, or in Estonia, appears to be no longer operational. “Global adversaries know who they are, and they now have a cyber-target painted on their logo,” says Unisys’ chief trust officer. The company that provided email verification services for organizations left a Mongo database containing over 808 million records publicly accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/lessons-learned-from-7-big-breaches-in-2019