The Internet’s Biggest Webmaster Forum Had a Data Breach

guest · Sep 7, 2020

Webmaster forum database exposed data of 800,000 users
A database belonging to Digital Point exposed user email addresses, names, and more
September 7, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/webmaster-forum-database-exposed-data-of-800000-users/

A database belonging to the Digital Point webmaster forum leaked the records of over 800,000 users.

San Diego, California-based Digital Point describes itself as the "largest webmaster community in the world," bringing together freelancers, marketers, coders, and other creative professionals.
On July 1, the WebsitePlanet research team and cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing over 62 million records.

In total, data belonging to 863,412 Digital Point users was included in the leak.
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According to the team, names, email addresses, and internal user ID numbers were made publicly available.
In addition, internal records and user post details were stored in the open database.

"One of the dangers of a non-password protected database is that it is a sitting target waiting to be stolen, encrypted, or deleted," the team says.
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The Internet’s Biggest Webmaster Forum Had a Data Breach

This data exposure raises the risks of a targeted phishing campaign and domain hijacking. Having the contact information, email and other details could allow a cyber criminal to use acquired personal information about the actual domain owner to impersonate them.

The database was also at risk of ransomware and luckily discovered and secured just two weeks before the “Meow Bot” wiped out thousands of databases around the world virtually overnight.
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