Security News > 2021 > June > Cybersecurity Firm Exposes Breach Database Containing 5 Billion User Records
2021-06-15 12:32
Technology research company Comparitech on Monday said its researchers discovered that a cybersecurity firm had exposed a database containing more than 5 billion user records.
An investigation revealed that the database stored information that had been compromised in data breaches suffered by various companies over the past years.
The database has been used by security analytics firm Cognyte to alert customers when their information is exposed as a result of a data breach suffered by a third party.
The database stored names, email addresses, passwords and data sources.
This is not the first time Diachenko has come across an unprotected database belonging to a cybersecurity firm.
That database also stored more than 5 billion records.