Experts found 20 Million tax records for Russian citizens exposed online

From securityaffairs.co

Russian citizens

Security experts from Comparitech along with security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens exposed online in clear text and without protection.

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016.

“A database of more than 20 million Russian tax records was found on an unsecured server, accessible to anyone with a web browser.” reads the post published by Comparitech.

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