In early August, cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews discovered an unprotected database containing sensitive information on hundreds of thousands of Chinese individuals.
To this day, they haven’t figured out who the database belongs to, or why it was generated and left open in the first place. Using Elasticsearch, a search engine for databases, the team of researchers found a database containing details on 762,000 car owners, and their vehicles. The archive contained people’s names, ID numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, birth dates, vehicle identification numbers (VIN), car brand, car model, engine number, and vehicle color.
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