South African IT firm Conor behind the leak of 1 million web browsing records

guest · Dec 16, 2019

South African IT firm Conor behind the leak of 1 million web browsing records
Over 890GB of browsing log data of all online activities of over 1 million users
December 16, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/south...d-the-leak-of-1-million-web-browsing-records/

A database containing highly sensitive and private information and activity, including porn browsing history, has been exposed, with users in South Africa mostly affected.
The database, according to vpnMentor's research team, belonged to South African IT company Conor.

As the researchers detailed, daily logs of user activity by customers of ISPs using web filtering software built by Conor exposed all internet traffic and activity of these users, along with their personally identifying information.
The software was a web filter developed for ISP clients to restrict access to certain websites and types of online content.
It was reportedly unsecured and unencrypted.

"We viewed constantly updating user activity logs for the last two months from customers of numerous ISPs based in African and South American countries," the report details.
In addition to websites visited by users, vpnMentor's researchers were able to view the index names, which exposed daily activity;
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