Security News > 2021 > September > Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

A database containing personal information on 106 million international travelers to Thailand was exposed to the public internet this year, a Brit biz claimed this week.

According to data from The World Bank, Thailand racked up almost 40 million international arrivals in 2019, a number that was on the rise every year pre-pandemic except for 2014, the year the country experienced a military coup.

"Any foreigner who travelled to Thailand in the last decade or so probably has a record in the database," wrote Bischoff.

Diachenko told The Register a "Server misconfiguration" by an IT outsourcer caused the database to be exposed to the whole world.

In 2018, TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand, suffered a database breach of around 46,000 records.

Comparitech said the database it found contained several assets, in addition to the 106 million records, making the total leaked information come to around 200 GB. .

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