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ElasticSearch
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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
Call Center Provider Experiences Major Data Leak
The exposed data was being updated in realtime with new logs while 1.48 million robocall logs were accessed by researchers initially.
March 29, 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
Data analytics firm Polecat data breach – 30TB of data exposed
Polecat exposed an Elasticsearch server that wasn't protected with any authentication measures or any form of encryption.
March 2, 2021
Hundred thousand Spotify accounts leaked in credential stuffing attack
Spotify has suffered its second credential stuffing attack in three months.
February 8, 2021
Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data
The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database.
January 12, 2021
Database leak exposed mass credential stuffing against Spotify users
Researchers helped Spotify detect and address a severe credential stuffing operation affecting hundreds of millions of its users.
November 25, 2020
Leaked database exposed login data of 100k hacked Facebook accounts
The leaked database was owned by cybercriminals who hacked Facebook accounts and used them for credit card and Bitcoin scams.
November 17, 2020
Fashion retailer BrandBQ exposes 1 TB of customers, contractors data
The database was hosted on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server.
September 28, 2020