Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

24 Billion Records Left Open Online: Passwords, Emails, and Everything Else Exposed database with 24 Billion records revealed stolen credentials from infostealers, Telegram channels, and breach collections, risking account takeovers. Cybernews researchers found an exposed Elasticsearch cluster on June 12th containing 24 billion records and more than 8.3 terabytes of data. They triple-checked the numbers. […]

A 5-year study on the Ransomware Economy found that 30,515 exposed databases were hit by ransom attacks, causing massive damage despite victims never paying. Database extortion doesn’t look like the ransomware stories that usually grab headlines. There’s no slick branding, no leak-site countdown, no gang posting memes on Telegram. In most cases, there’s just a […]

The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.…

Researcher Found Unsecured Database Server Containing 1,864 GB of OrthoMinds' DataAn orthodontic practice software vendor is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was exposed to the internet for 10 days last November. The security researcher who discovered the data leak said the incident appears to have lasted longer and affected more than 200,000 patients.

Researchers at Wiz uncovered a publicly accessible database belonging to Chinese GenAI provider DeepSeek that leaked sensitive data, including chat history

Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data

The data leak exposed personal data of 100m US citizens, resulting from a misconfigured database made accessible online

High-profile individuals including MPs said to be caught up in leak Exclusive Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database.…

Researcher Reported Configuration Issue to Cloud Vendor After Lab Failed to RespondAn unsecured database appearing to belong to a Netherlands-based medical laboratory exposed 1.3 million records on the internet, including COVID test results and other personal identifiable information, said a security researcher who discovered the trove and reported his findings to the company.

Luxottica has confirmed one of its partners suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database was posted this month for free on hacking forums. [...]

A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network's chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

​The Versus Market, one of the most popular English-speaking criminal darknet markets, is shutting down after discovering a severe exploit that could have allowed access to its database and exposed the IP address of its servers. [...]

Researchers discover database exposed through misconfiguration