Tag: Leaky database
Email Marketing Company Mailfire Exposes PII of Dating Site Users
An anonymous ethical hacker found an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing private data of hundreds of thousands of users of over 70 adult dating and...
Digital Point’s Unsecured Database Exposed Records of Over 800,000 Users
An unprotected database belonging to a webmaster forum, Digital Point, exposed more than 800,000 users’ records. Security firm WebsitePlanet and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler...
Massive Data Breach! View Media’s Unsecured Database Exposes 38 Mn User Records
Online marketing company View Media’s unsecured database, which held 38 million U.S. users’ data, was recently exposed online. According to researchers from CyberNews, the...
Data Scraped from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Exposes 235 Mn Social Media Profiles
Security researchers discovered a misconfigured database exposing over 235 million social media profiles online. According to the security researcher Bob Diachenko, who leads cybersecurity...
Unsecured Database Exposes 5.5 Mn Records of Multiple Organizations
Inadvertent database exposure continues to be a major risk for organizations. Security professionals are concerned about their database security as employees are now working...
E-Learning Platforms Continue to Suffer Data Breaches; 1 Mn Records Exposed
Security researchers from WizCase discovered unprotected databases belonging to multiple e-learning platforms that were exposed online without password protection. The unencrypted databases leaked personally...