Security News > 2020 > March > Unsecured databases continue leaking millions of records

UK ISP and telecom provider Virgin Media has confirmed on Thursday that one of its unsecured marketing databases had been accessed by on at least one occasion without permission.

Comparitech revealed that, in January, its security research team discovered a similarly unsecured and exposed database with 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related data on US residents.

Eldad Chai, CEO and co-founder of data protection and governance firm Satori Cyber, says that happens because today's model for data security is completely inadequate for the cloud.

"Relying on cloud configuration management alone cannot keep companies safe from data leaks and is many steps short of keeping big data stores safe. It is enough for one employee to replicate a VM housing sensitive data to an environment that is not configured to hold it to bring the whole [thing] down."

London-based TurgenSec, whose researchers discovered and responsibly reported the unsecured Virgin Media database, has shared more information about what kind of information the database contained.

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