More than 38 billion records exposed in DarkBeam data leak

pppMore than 38 billion records have been exposed after digital protection firm DarkBeam left an interface containing the exposed records unprotected The leak was discovered on September 18 by CEO of cyber security news site SecurityDiscovery Bob Diachenko who alerted DarkBeam to the leak The digital protection firm immediately addressed the vulnerability and closed the leak after being alerted to the factppDarkBeam had been collecting the data to alert its customers in the case of a data breach meaning the data exposed was data already leaked in prior cyber attacks Of the data leaked there were 16 collections named email 09 and email AF which represented 239635000 pairs of login credentialsppppA sample of the leaked data Source SecurityDiscovery ppThe data leak was caused by leaving a Elasticsearch and Kibana data visualization interface unportected allowing access to the confidential data held within it Speaking to cyber security site Cybernews about the data leak Dianchenko noted that data leaks like this are usually down to human error for example employees forgetting to passwordprotect data after maintenance is done ppDarkBeam has not yet publicly addressed the situation ppppWith more than 140000 members Cyber Security Hub is the vibrant community connecting cyber security professionals around the worldpp
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