Imagine a company holds a list of 10,000 customers. To enrich this list, they send queries to a PDL provider. While modern APIs are often secure, legacy systems or bulk processing scripts sometimes transmit these queries in unencrypted logs or through insecure channels.
A “Director” at a small startup was shown as “VP” at a previous firm that he left under confidential circumstances. That old data synced to our sales team, who used it in a pitch. Embarrassing and legally risky. data enrichment exposure from pdl customer