LexisNexis hacked, 2 GB of structured data allegedly exposed


The hacker group FulcrumSec is taking responsibility for a data breach of information from LexisNexis. The group claims to have hacked into the LexisNexis servers on Feb. 24. It posted about the hack and alleged it got access to over 2 gigabytes of structured data.

“We exfiltrated 2.04 GB of structured data from LexisNexis AWS infrastructure – account [REDACTED] — via a vulnerable React container running under the [REDACTED] task role — which had been granted access to the production Redshift data warehouse, 17 VPC databases

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Source: Yahoo News


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