You may have heard of the phrase It’s raining cats and dogs but in the world of cyber security it’s raining data!
A group of hackers going by the handle of TeamGhostShell has leaked more than 36 million accounts/records of internal data from several vulnerable networks in order to raise awareness about the poor security infrastructure implemented on MongoDB databases by their owners.
This data breach is very similar to past cases for example; lack of security on a database that contained sensitive information of 191 million citizens in the US. Another example is the Mackeeper website which didn’t implement basic security settings on the database. The past and current data breaches are all related to MongoDB servers. For the full article click here
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