Security News > 2021 > January > Criminal, Domestic Violence Case Info Exposed in Cook County Leak

UPDATE. A non-password protected database exposed 323,000 court records for at least four months, according to researchers.

The database exposed the names of various people involved in sensitive criminal, domestic-abuse or child-custody court cases, related to a county in Illinois.

Researchers from Website Planet said they don't know who owns the exposed database in question.

The exposed court records, which were dated between 2012 to 2020, exposed both case plaintiffs and defendants "In a tone that was clearly aimed for internal use only and should not have been publicly exposed," said researchers.

Wrapped up in the database were files labeled "IMM," that researchers believed to be various immigration court records; including various email addresses and various court records that included names, case numbers, and case notes about the status or progress of the case.

Earlier in January, a misconfigured ElasticSearch database exposed more than 400GB of public and private profile data for 214 million social-media users from around the world - including details for celebrities and social-media influencers in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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https://threatpost.com/criminal-domestic-case-cook-county-leak23k-sensitive-court-records/163336/