Database exposes names of risky potential bank customers

guest · Dec 14, 2019

Database exposes names of risky potential bank customers
December 13, 2019
https://www.cnet.com/news/database-exposes-names-of-risky-potential-bank-customers/

If your name's on this list, banks will treat you with extreme caution. The database is supposed to be private, but it was found online, accessible to anyone with a web browser, a security researcher said Friday.

Called WorldCompliance Data, it's LexisNexis' proprietary database that warns financial institutions when potential customers have been convicted of financial crimes or might be susceptible to bribery.
The database contained more than 4.5 million records, said Bob Diachenko, the researcher who found it.

The exposed database has been secured since Diachenko discovered it and alerted LexisNexis and the cloud service provider, Google.
LexisNexis didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Diachenko noted that it's unclear which organization maintained the version of the database that was exposed.
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