More than 16 terabytes of professional and corporate intelligence data, including personally identifiable information (PII), was sitting in an unprotected database, available to anyone who knew where to look.
This is according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews who found the database and described it as “one of the largest lead-generation datasets to have ever leaked.” Despite the risks and the disruptive potential, unprotected databases remain one of the most common causes of data leaks. In this instance, the researchers found a MongoDB database with almost 4.3 billion documents.
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