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Data Breach, database, elasticsearch December 18, 2019

Honda Exposes Vehicle Owner Records on the Web

On December 11th, 2019, I have identified an open and unprotected Elasticsearch cluster with 976 millions of records which appeared to be part of Honda North America infrastructure, exposed online to anyone with a web browser….

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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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Data Breach, elasticsearch September 26, 2019

Large Italian Online Shop Exposed Customers Details

On Sept 4th I have identified an open and unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing sensitive details of customers of Calcioshop.it, popular online shop in Italy for football accessories. Database contained 408,995 records with information about Calcioshop customer…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch September 24, 2019

Investment Research Company Exposed Subscribers, Credit Card Data, and Evidence of Ransomware

Way back in March, 2019 Security Discovery’s Bob Diachenko discovered a non-password protected database that contained 18,000 user names, mailing addresses, hashed passwords, and credit card information such as the last 4 digits of the…

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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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Data Breach, Data Security Education, elasticsearch September 13, 2019

Bold.com Exposed Its Internal Infrastructure

Bold.com, company behind popular solutions to help jobseekers find jobs, and help businesses find candidates – LiveCareer, Resume-Now, my Perfect Resume, Mighty Recruiter – inadvertently exposed part of its internal infrastructure used for project tracking and project…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch September 11, 2019

Auto Dealer Leads Network Exposed 198 Million Records Online

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…

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database, elasticsearch August 26, 2019

Gartner’s Legacy System Exposed Online

On August 14th I have sent a responsible disclosure notice to Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, alerting them on a misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster with 1TB+ of data. According to Shodan and…

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Blog, Data Breach, database, elasticsearch, Uncategorized August 23, 2019

Fundraising Platform Exposes 7.5 Million Records Online

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…

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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, 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, 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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