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The Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of subscriber data
The data was exposed due to an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster and remained open to public access without any security authentication.
October 6, 2021
Indonesian Govt’s COVID-19 test, trace app leak impacting 1.3m users
The data leak took place after the Elasticsearch server used by eHAC developers exposed the data due to misconfiguration.
September 1, 2021
Android game developer EskyFun exposed 1 million gamers to hackers
EskyFun used an unsecured Elasticsearch server for storing vast amounts of data collected from users which was later exposed online.
September 1, 2021
US Govt’s secret terrorist watchlist with 2M records exposed online
The watchlist was exposed on a misconfigured server hosted on a Bahrain IP address instead of a US one.
August 17, 2021
Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up
The database was left exposed without any security authentication meaning it could be accessed by anyone with access to a valid URL.
August 2, 2021
Cybersecurity firm exposes 5 billion data breach records
Cybersecurity firm Cognyte fails to secure its database exposing 5 billion records comprise of previous data breaches.
June 20, 2021
Logistics giant exposes customer data, Lolz at researchers when alerted
At the time of publishing this article; the data belonging to Bergen Logistics was available for public access without any security authentication.
May 24, 2021
Leaky database exposes fake Amazon product reviews scam
The database contained 7GB worth of data including fake Amazon reviews and PayPal email addresses of scammers among other sensitive data.
May 7, 2021
Hacker leaks 150 million user records from Iranian Raychat app
If you are on the Raychat app, here's what you should know about the breach and get in touch with the company to inquire about the data breach.
May 3, 2021
Online trading broker FBS exposes 20TB of data with 16 billion records
The leaked data also included unredacted credit cards and passports of millions of users around the world.
March 24, 2021