Cybersecurity firm Cognyte fails to secure its database exposing 5 billion records comprise of previous data breaches.
In recent news, a cybersecurity analytics firm, Cognyte was found to be responsible for leaving a huge database unsecured which led to more than 5 billion records being exposed online.
The database could be accessed by anyone and did not require any sort of authorization or authentication. It appears to be rather ironic that the database was made for the purpose of cross-checking whether the personal information of any client was present in the known breaches that were stored there. However, that database itself turned out to be exposed.
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This discovery was made by researchers at Comparitech who found out that the information leaked included:
Names
Passwords
Email addresses
Original source of the leak.
The data was stored on an Elasticsearch cluster and in total, there were 5,085,132,102 records. This data may or may not have been accessed by a number of third parties, there really is no way of telling.
According to Comparitech’s report, some of the data belonged to high profile data breaches such as:
Zoosk
Tumbler
Antipublic
MySpace
Canva
Verification.io
iMesh
Edmodo
VK
Exploit
Master Breach Comp
Rambler
Onebip
Scentbird
Appen.com
Toondoo
Wishbone
Wattpad
Mathway
Promo.com
MGM
Estante (Brazilian book shop)
The blog post detailing the data breach elaborated that password leaks may be one of the bigger concerns since even if users change their password to one account, hackers may still be able to use that password to try to login to another account if it’s being used for m ..
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