Open database leaked 179GB in customer, US government, and military records

guest · Oct 21, 2019

Open database leaked 179GB in customer, US government, and military records
The US Department of Homeland Security has become embroiled in the leak
October 21, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/autoc...mer-government-and-military-personal-records/

An open database exposing records containing the sensitive data of hotel customers as well as US military personnel and officials has been disclosed by researchers.
On Monday, vpnMentor's cybersecurity team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said the database belonged to Autoclerk, a service owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts group.

In a report shared with ZDNet, the researchers said the open Elasticsearch database was discovered through vpnMentor's web mapping project. It was possible to access the database, given it had no encryption or security barriers whatsoever, and perform searches to examine the records contained within.
Data breaches are a common occurrence [...] What is more uncommon, however, is that the US government and military figures have also been involved in this security incident.
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