Security News > 2020 > January > Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?
A database containing the personal details of 56.25m US residents - from names and home addresses to phone numbers and ages - has been found on the public internet, served from a computer with a Chinese IP address, bizarrely enough.
He told us he found the 22GB database exposed on the internet, including metadata that links the collection to CheckPeople.com.
The repository's contents are likely scraped from public records, though together provide rather detailed profiles on tens of millions of folks in America.
Basically, CheckPeople.com has done the hard work of aggregating public personal records, and this exposed NoSQL database makes that info even easier to crawl and process.
We understand the database has been removed from the Chinese server.
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