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India’s Largest Truck Brokerage Company Leaking 140GB of Data
The cause of the data leak is an ongoing server misconfiguration, identified by researchers on Shodan, the search engine for IoT devices.
February 4, 2023
Top ERP Firm Exposing Half a Million Indian Job Seekers Data
Apparently, the server belongs to a company based in the US with offices around the globe including India.
January 3, 2023
Leaky Server Exposing Scraped Data of 150,000 Mastodon Users
At the time of writing, the server was actively being updated with more data!
November 18, 2022
Leaked Amazon Prime Video Server Exposed Users Viewing Habits
Security researcher Anurag Sen revealed Amazon failed to protect one of its internal servers, which allowed any third party to access the database.
November 1, 2022
Covid antigen test results of 1.7m Indian and foreign nationals leaked online
The exposed Elasticsearch server belongs to an Indian healthcare software company that has not secured the database despite being alerted.
September 25, 2022
Hacker Selling Shanghai Police Database with Billions of Chinese Citizen Data
As seen by Hackread.com, the database is currently being sold for 10 Bitcoin (around $200,000) at the time…
July 4, 2022
Elasticsearch Database Mess Up Exposed Login, PII Data of 30,000 Students
The misconfigured Elasticsearch database apparently belonged to the US-based software solution provider Transact Campus. SafetyDetectives’ cybersecurity research team…
June 15, 2022
Personal Data of Tens of Millions of Russians and Ukrainians Exposed Online
The trove of data was leaked due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch server and in total it stored 870…
May 24, 2022
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed 579 GB of Users’ Website Activity
In total, two misconfigured ElasticSearch servers belonging to an unknown organization exposed 359,019,902 (359 million) records that were…
May 12, 2022
US and China Exposed Most Databases Among 308,000 Discovered in 2021
In total, 308,000 unsecured databases were found exposing sensitive assets worldwide of which around 90,000 databases have already…
April 28, 2022