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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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, database, mongodb April 18, 2019

Iranian Ride-Hailing App Database Exposure

On April 18th, during our regular security audit of nonSql databases with BinaryEdge search engine, I have discovered an open and publicly available MongoDB instance which contained astonishingly sensitive information on Iranian drivers. Information was…

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Blog, database, elasticsearch, spammers April 2, 2019

Massive Spam Operation Uncovered In A Database Leak

Sometimes databases are left wide open not only by legit companies, but misconfigured by malicious actors themselves. Last month I have discovered a publicly available database with almost 5GB of 11,535,164 records with compromised emails…

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