Hacks

The database was available for anyone to access without a password. Recently on October 16, 2019, a team of two dark web researchers named Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a database containing a massive trove of personal records of more than 1.2 billion people. While they were looking for exposures through  BinaryEdge  and  Shodan , they stumbled upon the server which had an IP address that could be traced to Google Cloud Services.  In total, the database was home to over 4 terabytes of data sitting in plain sight for public access. Found on an exposed Elasticsearch server; the good news is that these records did not host login credentials, social security numbers or payment card details. A look at the details shared by researchers indicates that the data was scraped from social media platforms including  Twitter ,  Facebook ,  LinkedIn  and  GitHub , a Git repository hosting service. Additionally, it contains ...