Elasticsearch

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2019
Did you win at online casinos? Watch out, your data might have had exposed online

Data belonging to online casinos found exposed online on unprotected Elastic search instance, it includes info on 108 million bets and user details Data breaches are an ordinary issue, this time an online casino group leaked information about 108 million bets including user details. Leaked data includes personal information and payment card details, including real […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2018
Experts found data belonging to 82 Million US Users exposed on unprotected Elasticsearch Instances

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2018
Data Broker Exactis data breach, one of the biggest ever, exposes millions of Americans

Security expert Vinny Troia has found a huge trove of data belonging to millions of Americans that were left unsecured online.  The security researcher Vinny Troia was analyzing the level of security for Elasticsearch installs exposed online when discovered millions of records belonging to Americans that were left unsecured online. The expert used Shodan to find U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2017
Thousands of Elasticsearch installs compromised to host PoS Malware

Experts discovered 4,000 compromised installations on Amazon AWS of open source analytics and search tool Elasticsearch that were running PoS malware. Security researchers from the firm Kromtech have discovered 4,000 compromised instances of open source analytics and search tool Elasticsearch that were running PoS malware. According to Kromtech, this is just a portion of the overall number of compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2017
Unsecure Hadoop Distributed File System installs 5 PB of Data

According to Shodan search, unprotected Hadoop Distributed File System installations expose 5 PB of data. Hadoop servers that are not securely configured expose vast amounts of data, according to an analysis conducted using the Internet search engine Shodan. A study conducted by Shodan revealed that nearly 4,500 servers with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) […]