10 billion records exposed in unsecured databases, study says

From welivesecurity.com

Researchers have found close to 10.5 billion pieces of consumer data that has been left sitting in almost 10,000 unsecured internet-facing databases hosted across 20 countries. The data is said to include email addresses, passwords, and phone numbers.

The study was conducted by NordPass between June 2019 and June 2020 in cooperation with an unnamed white hat hacker, who scanned the web for Elasticsearch and MongoDB libraries in search of misconfigured databases.

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