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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stripchat database mess up exposes 200M adult cam models, users’ data
StripChat is one of the top five adult cam sites on the internet. Earlier this month, this site suffered a database mess up that leaked sensitive data.
Data analytics firm exposed 2m Instagram and TikTok users’ data
The victims of this "data leak" also include celebrities like Alicia Keys, Loren Gray, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Kim Kardashian.
Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted.
Brazilian marketplace integrator Hariexpress exposed 1.75 billion records
At the time of publishing this article, the data was still exposed and growing as there has been no response from Hariexpress.
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.