Data Breach

Blog, Data Breach, database August 25, 2021

Porn Blocking App Exposed User Data Online

Porn Blocking App called BlockerX Suffered a data leak that may have potentially put vulnerable users at risk. On August 2nd, I discovered a non-password-protected database containing a large number of publicly exposed records. Among…

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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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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 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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Blog, Data Breach February 18, 2019

Human Resources and employee management provider CavinHR leaks 400,000+ files including their customer’s employee files and internal employees.

CavinHR had a data breach. Automation and technology is important to any business where time is money, but one thing to never overlook is cyber security. It is common knowledge in the business world that…

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