averagesecurityguy<p>It's been about a week since this happened so I'm probably cool-headed enough to talk about it. First a little background info.</p><p>A sales person from Offensive Security (<a href="https://www.offsec.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">offsec.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) has been trying to reach out to me for days. First by work email, which I ignored, then through my personal LinkedIn account, which I also ignored.</p><p>Then, last week, my son texts me and says, "some guy called me looking for you." I told him I was your son and he said he would try to email. I know that absolutely no one in my professional circle has my son's personal cell number, so I asked him to send me the number that called him.</p><p>I call the number back and it's the sales guy from Offensive Security. I immediately asked him how he got my son's number and found out it was part of a ZoomInfo (<a href="https://www.zoominfo.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">zoominfo.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) record for me. I told him to immediately delete any record he has with my son's information.</p><p>I then let him know in no uncertain terms that his company was using some shady data gathering practices if they had my son's cell number and because of that I will personally never do business with OffSec again. I also made it clear that he should never reach out to me again.</p><p>Even though I hold the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OSCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSCP</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OSCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSCE</span></a> certifications and even though they were a career changer for me and for my colleagues, I will no longer do business with their company.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OffSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OffSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OffensiveSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OffensiveSecurity</span></a></p>