Catalin Cimpanu reports: The criminal gang behind the Gootkit malware has made the same mistake that thousands of legitimate companies have made before them in the past years — they left MongoDB databases connected to the internet without a password. The leak allowed security researcher Bob Diachenko to download all group’s data and gain an…
Category: Exposure
Data of 24.3 million Lumin PDF users shared on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The details of over 24.3 million Lumin PDF users have been shared today on a hacking forum, ZDNet has learned from a source. The hacker said they leaked the company’s data after Lumin PDF administrators failed to answer his queries multiple times over the past few months. Read more on ZDNet.
Database leaks data on most of Ecuador’s citizens, including 6.7 million children
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal records of most of Ecuador’s population, including children, has been left exposed online due to a misconfigured database, ZDNet has learned. The database, an Elasticsearch searver, was discovered two weeks ago by vpnMentor security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, who shared their findings exclusively with ZDNet. Together, we worked…
UNICEF data leak reveals personal info of 8,000 online learners
Vince Chadwick reports: The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has inadvertently leaked personal information belonging to thousands of users of its online learning portal Agora. The website offers free training courses to UNICEF staff and members of the public on issues such as child rights, humanitarian action, research, and data. On Aug. 26, an email…
AU: Tech start-up investigating ‘potential data leak’ on online ticketing platform
Ben Nielsen and Rebecca Puddy report: An online ticketing company has moved quickly to fix a “potential data leak” after a university student claimed the personal details of thousands of people had been revealed. In a statement posted on its website, Get said it had “immediately acted” following reports of a “potential vulnerability” in its…
Il: Netanyahu’s Party Exposed Personal Details, Political Affiliation of Millions of Israelis
Hagai Amit reports: Who supports Likud? Anyone could have found that out until Sunday afternoon, using the party’s database, which contained information about four million Israelis that appears in the country’s voter registration rolls. The party blocked access to the website just 20 minutes after Haaretz called on Sunday to inquire why these data were…