Here's What It's Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People

Published: March 20, 2019, 4:33 p.m.

Steve Hardigree hadn't even gotten to the office yet, and his day was already a waking nightmare. As Googled his company's name that morning last June, Hardigree found a growing list of headlines naming the 10-person marketing firm he'd founded three years earlier, Exactis, as the source of a leak of the personal records of nearly everyone in the United States.