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by uptown 2807 days ago
"The sales intelligence firm firm Apollo sent a notice to its customers last week disclosing a data breach it suffered over the summer. "On discovery, we took immediate steps to remediate our systems and confirmed the issue could not lead to any future unauthorized access," cofounder and CEO Tim Zheng wrote. "We can appreciate that this situation may cause you concern and frustration." In fact, the scale and scope of the breach has a lot of people concerned."

Nice of them to notify their customers, but not the people whose data has been exposed. "Have I Been Pwned" alerted me.

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I didn't even know who Apollo was until I got that email
I still haven't figured out who they are, but my email account that was compromised was made specifically for Heroku.

Thanks to haveibeenpwned.com for the heads up.

The one that I got a hit for was made specifically for New Relic.

Is this some kind of sales platform or what? It's so tiresome to have your email become the town bike the moment any SaaS gets their hands on it.

I had a NewRelic account via Heroku, so that's a link for me too
Maybe NewRelic is a customer and Apollo slurped up all their Salesforce contacts (aka NewRelic users)?
The email that was breached of mine was from hired.com. Similar situation vis-a-vis not being told
Mine was an account for Plivo.
Plivo here as well