Jeremiah Fowler, Author at Security Discovery

Blog March 1, 2021

Security Discovery Co-Founder Launches Service to Protect and Support Older People

Technology can often be considered both a gift and a curse for a growing population of older people. It can enhance the way we communicate with our friends, family, and loved ones. Technology makes it…

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Data Breach, database February 2, 2021

Comcast Exposed Development Database Online

On December 1st, 2020 I discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 1.5 billion records. Inside the dataset were clear references to Comcast that included subdomains, urls, and internal IP addresses. The publicly visible…

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Data Breach, database, IoT January 26, 2021

Smart Home Device Exposed 1 Billion Records Online Including User Data

On Jan 19th I discovered an exposed dataset that contained a massive 1.2 billion records and 1.1 million “Logged in Users”. This is one of the largest datasets I have found in a very long…

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Data Breach December 11, 2020

Fotor Photo Editing App Leaked 13 Million Users’ Info Online

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database November 23, 2020

Luxury Real Estate Firm Exposed Owner and Agent Data Online For Months, Later Wiped Out By Malicious Meow Bot

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database November 13, 2020

Hosting Provider Exposed 63 Million Records and User Passwords

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…

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Blog, Data Breach September 22, 2020

Property Management Company Exposed 1.2 Million Records Online

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, Trending August 17, 2020

AI Company Exposed 2.5 Million Records Including Medical Data of Auto Accident Victims Online

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…

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Data Breach, database July 7, 2020

Home Loan Provider Exposed 695k Records Online

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…

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Data Breach, database June 26, 2020

Largest US Bubble Tea Supplier Exposed Data Online

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database March 2, 2020

Free Wifi User Data Exposed in Multiple UK Train Stations

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…

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Data Breach, database February 18, 2020

FairBridge Inn & Suites Exposed Customer Booking Platform

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…

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Blog, database, Uncategorized February 11, 2020

Estee Lauder Exposed 440 Million Records Online

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database February 4, 2020

Pabbly Email Marketing Exposes 51.2 Million Records Online

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database January 13, 2020

Online Eyewear Websites Expose Data of 186k Customers

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….

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Data Breach, database, elasticsearch, Uncategorized November 13, 2019

Prank Call Service PrankDial Exposed 138 Million Records Online

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…

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

2.59 Million Credit Card Transactions Exposed –

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, elasticsearch October 22, 2019

Religious Website and Software Provider Leaks Customer and Credit Card Data for Many Months

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, Data Security Education October 11, 2019

When Test Data is Not Test Data

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…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch, Uncategorized September 19, 2019

Mattress Company Exposes 387k Customer Records Online

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…

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Articles by Jeremiah Fowler

Security Discovery Co-Founder Launches Service to Protect and Support Older People

Comcast Exposed Development Database Online

Smart Home Device Exposed 1 Billion Records Online Including User Data

Fotor Photo Editing App Leaked 13 Million Users’ Info Online

Luxury Real Estate Firm Exposed Owner and Agent Data Online For Months, Later Wiped Out By Malicious Meow Bot

Property Management Company Exposed 1.2 Million Records Online

Home Loan Provider Exposed 695k Records Online

Largest US Bubble Tea Supplier Exposed Data Online

Free Wifi User Data Exposed in Multiple UK Train Stations

FairBridge Inn & Suites Exposed Customer Booking Platform

Estee Lauder Exposed 440 Million Records Online

Pabbly Email Marketing Exposes 51.2 Million Records Online

Online Eyewear Websites Expose Data of 186k Customers

Prank Call Service PrankDial Exposed 138 Million Records Online

2.59 Million Credit Card Transactions Exposed –

Religious Website and Software Provider Leaks Customer and Credit Card Data for Many Months

When Test Data is Not Test Data

Mattress Company Exposes 387k Customer Records Online