A cybersecurity researcher has discovered an exposed Elasticsearch database with millions of login credentials, Wired reported today. Jeremiah Fowler found the system on May 6. Usually, Fowler told ...

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Cybercriminals left an ElasticSearch database exposed, revealing a global attack that compromised Facebook accounts and used them to scam others. Researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging global scam ...

Unsecured databases exposed on the public web are once again being targeted but this time they're falling victim to automated 'meow' attacks that wipe their data without any explanation or even a ...

Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a data breach that exposed 250 million customer records via a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. As is somewhat typical with these exposures, the database was ...

An opsec-illiterate scammer has accidentally exposed more than 13 million data records via an open ElasticSearch database, relating to a large-scale fake review scam implicating independent Amazon ...

Instaclustr, a provider of fully managed solutions for scalable open source technologies, is releasing Instaclustr Managed Elasticsearch, expanding expands Instaclustr’s one-stop destination for ...

The Telegraph left 10 TB of subscriber data and server logs open to a breach after failing to properly secure one of its Elasticsearch cluster for several days. The mistake was uncovered by security ...

San Diego, California-based Digital Point describes itself as the "largest webmaster community in the world," bringing together freelancers, marketers, coders, and other creative professionals. On ...

Decathlon, the high-end sports retailer with stores in 49 countries around the world, has suffered a data breach spilling a total of 123 million records - including completely unencrypted passwords.