On October 15th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a large number of internal records. There was a total of more than 123 million records exposed that contained a combination of test and…
On June 17th I discovered a dataset that contained a massive amount of records that were clearly related to a real estate and a home sale brokerage company. There were a total of 30.7 million…
On October 5th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a large amount of monitoring and system logs. There were records indicating data backups, monitoring, error logging, and more. Upon further research, the database…
In June 2020, I discovered a large amount of records that contained detailed information on property renters, visitors, commercials leases, and much more. Upon further research it was clear that this was some type of…
In the ever-changing world of cyber security there are few types of records that are as valuable or sensitive as medical data. On July, 7th I discovered 2.5 million records that appeared to contain…
Recently I discovered a large collection of what appeared to be records related to home loans. Upon further research the records were connected to Texas based Southwest Funding. On May 20th I discovered a publicly…
On April 28th I discovered a dataset that contained what appeared to be customer information, payment references and was labeled as production data. There were links to sales records and links that identified the owner…
On February 14th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a massive amount of records totaling 146 million. Upon further review I was able to see connections to what appeared to be free wifi…
Booking a hotel online is now so common that we consumers never give it a second thought when traveling. We enter our information, provide payment details and then cross our fingers. Unfortunately once we provide…
On January 30th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a massive amount of records totaling 440,336,852. Upon further review I was able to see connections to New York based cosmetic company Estée Lauder. I…
Email marketing is big business and many companies rely on emails to keep in contact with their customers or potential customers. In the modern world of over priced pay per click ads targeted email marketing…
In October 2019 I discovered a database that contained 186,000 sales records and 40.4 million visitor IP addresses. From October 23rd, 2019 to January 13th, 2020 I sent multiple emails and left numerous voice messages….
On October 28th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained millions of log files. Upon further research, the records all contained information that identified PrankDial.com as the owner of the data. I immediately sent…
Two data incidents just months apart from each other. Back in February 2019 I found a database that belonged to a Nigerian based company. The first database contained over 8 million records. The representatives replied…
Religious website service Clover Sites exposed customer data for at least 6-7 months and the dataset was found twice on two separate databases. On May 22nd I discovered and reported a data exposure incident involving…
There is a growing trend among organizations and companies to simply deny that live production data is real. As a security researcher I often hear that everyone is a small start-up and all data is…
On September 5th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained 1 folder named “Customers”. Every file contained references to Verlo Mattress Factory and appeared to be customer data. Upon further investigation there were indications…
On August 19th I reported a non-password protected database that contained a massive 413GB of data and a total of 198 million records. The most shocking part was that I had seen this dataset several…
Online fundraising is a growing industry that has raised many billions of dollars for worthy causes from around the street to around the world. The concept of small donations from many people can have a…
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….