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Blog, Data Breach, database August 20, 2019

UK Property Preservation Company Has Data Exposed Online by 3rd Party

On July 30th I discovered an open database that contained 18,667 records including names, account numbers, transaction details, user credentials, and admin passwords. Upon further investigation I was able to connect the data to a…

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Blog, Data Breach, ipv6, mongodb August 14, 2019

Home and Family Job Search Engine Exposed Its Database

FamilaFacil, a Madrid-based home and family job search platform, has exposed its MongoDB database with details on their users and candidates. This was the first time I discovered an unprotected instance sitting in IPv6 environment…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch August 12, 2019

Microfinance Agency Exposed Thousands of Customer Records

In another Elasticsearch misconfiguration incident Credia.ge, a Tbilisi-based (Georgia) agency, exposed personal and loan information for thousands of its customers. I have identified the publicly available Elasticsearch cluster on August 3rd, however, according to Shodan…

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Blog, Data Breach, Data Security Education, mongodb August 8, 2019

Sex Sells! Spanish Chain of “Men’s Clubs” Exposed Its Database

On August 4th I discovered an open and unprotected MongoDB database which appeared to be part of a Spanish company managing a chain of “men’s clubs” across the country. IP with the database in question…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch August 7, 2019

Leadership for Educational Equity Exposes 3.69 Million Members Online

On July 26th discovered a non password protected elastic data set that contained 5.2 million documents in total. Immediately, I knew this information should not be publicly accessible and began trying to identify the ownership….

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Blog, Data Security Education, mongodb, Opinion Article July 29, 2019

Even randomized dummy data should be protected

A database belonging to online voting system provider Everyone Counts has been exposed, leaving what appears to be “randomized and anonymized” data used to simulate millions of voters and election workers open to the public….

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch July 25, 2019

Cheers – English Whiskey Club Leaked Info of 23,362 Members Online

On May 29th I discovered a database that contained what appeared to be a member list. Like most database names that do not clearly identify the ownership, this one was named Martha Johansson. I assume…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch July 23, 2019

Jana Small Finance Bank Exposed Millions of Records Online

On May 26th, I discovered a non-password protected database that contained what appeared to be millions of financial transactions. Upon further research I was able to connect the data to an Indian based microfinance bank…

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Blog, Data Breach, Data Security Education, jenkins July 8, 2019

GE Aviation exposed internal configs via open Jenkins instance

Back in June I decided to check how many open Jenkins instances are available for search and did additional parsing of Shodan search results html pages for better understanding. Jenkins is a service instance used…

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Blog, Data Breach, elasticsearch June 3, 2019

The University of Chicago Medicine Exposed ‘Perspective Givers’ Database With More Than A Million of Records

Elasticsearch misconfigurations and related data incidents have became top news recently, even after Elastic introduced free security packs for all their users. Nevertheless, we at SecurityDiscovery.com, are still registering 5-10 big cases every month and…

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Blog, Data Breach, mongodb May 29, 2019

London-based Marketplace Accidentally Exposed Personal Details of its Customers

In another MongoDB-related misconfiguration incident, a UK-based company exposed personal and payment data of several hundreds of its customers. On May 21st, I have identified an open and unprotected MongoDB instance, with no password/login needed…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch May 28, 2019

Mysterious Chinese Dating Apps Targeting US Customers Expose 42.5 Million Records Online

On May 25th I discovered a non password protected Elastic database that was clearly associated with dating apps based on the names of the folders. The IP address is located on a US server and…

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Data Breach, database, elasticsearch May 27, 2019

Company Offering Unique Experiences, Wine Tours, and Kids’ Parties Exposes 212,220 Records Online

On May 11th I discovered a non password protected Elastic database that contained detailed customer records and leads or potential customers. Upon further investigation of the data it appeared to belong to an Australian based…

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Data Breach, database, elasticsearch May 21, 2019

Golf App Exposes 218k Users’ Data Online

On April 1st Bob Diachenko discovered a non-password protected Elastic database that appeared to contain millions of records detailing golf games, courses, messages, and other player data. Upon further investigation there were many references to GAME…

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Data Breach, database, elasticsearch May 13, 2019

Panama Citizens Massive Data Breach

On May 10th I identified a massive bulk of data sitting in an unprotected and publicly available Elasticsearch cluster (hence visible in any browser). This database contained 3,427,396 records with detailed information on Panamanian citizens…

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Data Breach, mongodb May 9, 2019

Massive SMS Bombing Operation Uncovered In Passwordless Database

SMS marketing has been an increasing problem with the rise of scripts and applications and that send literally countless messages as fast as they can be sent. On April 11th, I discovered an open and…

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Data Breach, database, mongodb May 8, 2019

Database With Millions of Indian Personal Records Exposed and Hijacked

On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records with personal identifiable information (PII) on Indian citizens, including the following fields: Name Email Gender Education level and area…

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Data Breach, elasticsearch May 7, 2019

Burger King’s Online Shop for Kids Exposed Data

Kool King Shop, (https://www.koolkingshop.fr/), a French-only online shop for kids who purchased Burger King’s menus, had customers data exposed in a misconfigured database. An open and unprotected Elasticsearch cluster with plain-text data was left unattended…

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Data Breach, database, mongodb May 3, 2019

AMC inadvertently exposed its subscribers database for Sundance Now and Shudder services

On May 1st I have discovered an unprotected and publicly available MongoDB instance which appeared to contain data related to AMC Networks’ premium streaming offerings – Sundance NOW and Shudder. Although no sensitive information was…

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Blog, Data Breach, elasticsearch April 29, 2019

SkyMed Medical Evacuation Membership Service Exposed Data of 137k Members

On March 27th I discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database that contained what appeared to be members of a medical evacuation membership service. Upon further inspection of the data there were many references that the data…

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