Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing 2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librería Porrúa.
Tag Archives: MongoDB
275m personal records swiped from exposed MongoDB database
Records included not only the individuals’ name and email address but also their employment history, salary, and phone number.
Family tracking app spilled pics, names and real-time location data
A journalist/researcher team got a sensitive database taken down after the vendor responsible failed to acknowledge a problem.
Email list-cleaning site may have leaked up to 2 billion records
The number of records exposed online by Verification.io email list-cleaning service may be far higher than originally anticipated.
Here we Mongo again! Millions of records exposed by insecure database
Another day, another poorly configured MongoDB database.
Veeam leaves MongoDB database wide open, exposes 445m records
The data-management firm’s customer database held names, email addresses, some IP addresses and more: a wealth of ammo for phishers.
Social Security numbers exposed on US government transparency site
The US government exposed dozens of people’s’ personal details, including social security numbers, due to an online mishap on a public transparency portal.
Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine.
Automated money-laundering scheme found in free-to-play games
The scammers automatically created iOS accounts with valid email accounts, then automatically used stolen cards to buy and resell stuff.
Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!
If an application offers authentication security, it’s always a good idea to turn it on if that isn’t the default setting.