All posts tagged "ElasticSearch"
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1.5KData SecurityStripchat database mess up exposes 200M adult cam models, users’ data
The database was left exposed on an Elasticsearch Cluster without any password or security authentication. StripChat is one of the top five...
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5.2KData SecurityChinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites...
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5.5KData SecurityData analytics firm exposed 2m Instagram and TikTok users’ data
The victims of this “data leak” also include celebrities like Alicia Keys, Loren Gray, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Kim Kardashian. The...
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2.5KData SecurityBrazilian marketplace integrator Hariexpress exposed 1.75 billion records
At the time of publishing this article, the data was still exposed and growing as there has been no response from Hariexpress....
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5.2KNewsThe Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of subscriber data
The data was exposed due to an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster and remained open to public access without any security authentication. Well-known security...
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2.8KData SecurityAndroid game developer EskyFun exposed 1 million gamers to hackers
EskyFun stored a trove of gamers’ data on an Elastricsearch server that was exposed to the public without any security authentication. The...
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1.5KData SecurityIndonesian Govt’s COVID-19 test, trace app leak impacting 1.3m users
The incident took place after the Elasticsearch server used by eHAC developers exposed the data due to misconfiguration. According to Indonesian health...
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683Data SecurityUS Govt’s secret terrorist watchlist with 2M records exposed online
The watchlist was exposed on a misconfigured server hosted on a Bahrain IP address instead of a US one. The FBI was...
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2.1KData SecurityLogistics giant exposes customer data, Lolz at researchers when alerted
Bergen Logistics, a New Jersey-based company exposed its database back in December 2020 but Lolz when alerted about the incident. Recently, the...
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713Cyber CrimeLeaky database exposes fake Amazon product reviews scam
The database contained 7GB worth of data including fake Amazon product reviews and PayPal email addresses of scammers among other sensitive data. Whoever...
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1.3KSurveillanceCall Center Provider Experiences Major Data Leak
The exposed database was being updated in realtime with new logs while 1.48 million robocall logs were accessed by researchers initially. The...
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1.1KVulnerability AnalysisVulmap – Web Vulnerability Scanning And Verification Tools
Vulmap is a vulnerability scanning tool that can scan for vulnerabilities in Web containers, Web servers, Web middleware, and CMS and...
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390Data BreachIT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador’s History
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of...
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383Data SecurityNew malware attack turns Elasticsearch databases into DDoS botnet
The malware attack involves two stages including one in which existing cryptomining malware is removed. The IT security researchers at Trend Micro...
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387Data SecurityFreedom Mobile leaked millions of card data with CVV codes in plain text
The company claims it does not share user data with others but looks like it does. Another day, another data breach; this...
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344Data SecurityThousands of Kibana implementations using Elasticsearch are exposed online
Working with large amounts of data without taking the necessary security steps can pose a huge risk to any organization. According to...
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397GeekPrivacy in 2019: 6 Basic Steps to Keep Yourself Protected
2019 has barely started, and indications show that this year could very well be one of the worst for Internet users as...
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269Data Breach250,000 Sensitive Legal Documents Leaked Online via Unprotected Elasticsearch Cluster
Security researchers discovered 257,287 legal documents from unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that hosted on a US-based Amazon AWS server. The unprotected sensitive documents...
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287MalwareElasticsearch versions 1.4.2 and earlier vulnerable to malware infections
Two old vulnerabilities were exploited, allegedly by Chinese hackers The Cisco network security and ethical hacking teams recently detected intrusions from malicious...
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229IncidentsMillions of loans and mortgages banking files exposed online
A database with sensitive information on loans and mortgages has been recently leaked Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International...
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362NewsPrivate data of more than 82 million US citizens left exposed
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob Diachenko, a HackenProof security...
