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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.
An unprotected database was found to have exposed the data of all Wyze users who created an account before December 26, 2019. Following a report last week of an exposed database containing a great deal of information on Wyze users, the company stepped forward and confirmed the leak, while also revealing that it had launched an investigation into the matter.
Technical Data Plus Emails Made It Possible to Link Cameras to PeopleSeattle-based smart home device maker Wyze says an error by a developer exposed a database to the internet over a three-week...
Security Researchers Say Criminal Group Scraped Phone Numbers and Other DataAn unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed the identities and phone numbers of over 267 million Facebook users for...
Agency Also Releases Study on That Raises Concerns About Facial Recognition TechnologyThe National Institute of Standards and Technology has released three biometric datasets to help organizations...
An unprotected Elasticsearch database that was accessible from the Internet was recently found to store information on over 267 million Facebook users, Comparitech reveals. read more
A data silo we didn't know existed until a certain IT admin went rogue Analysis The FBI is likely breaking the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches, when it investigates...
SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced it has acquired VividCortex, a leading provider of SaaS-delivered database performance management with...
MemSQL, the No-Limits DatabaseTM for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, announced the general availability of MemSQL 7.0, the most powerful version yet of the company’s...
Data Leak May Affect Tens of Million, VPNMentor ReportsResearchers uncovered an unsecured database belonging to TrueDialog, a business SMS texting solutions provider, which exposed data on...