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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2872782" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 9px">another large database compromise ... </span></span><a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records" target="_blank">https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records" target="_blank">https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records" target="_blank">MongoDB Config Error Exposed 93M Mexican Voter Records</a> <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/3060204/security/mongodb-configuration-error-exposed-93-million-mexican-voter-records.html" target="_blank"> (csoonline.com) </a> <a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records#comments" target="_blank">62</a> </strong></span></p><p>April 22, 2016</p><p></p><p><em>A 132 GB database, containing the personal information on <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/3060204/security/mongodb-configuration-error-exposed-93-million-mexican-voter-records.html" target="_blank">93.4 million Mexican voters has finally been taken offline</a>. The database sat exposed to the public for at least eight days after its discovery by researcher Chris Vickery, but originally went public in September 2015. Vickery, who works as a security researcher at Kromtech, discovered the MongoDB instance on April 14, but had difficulty tracking down the person or company responsible for placing the voter data on Amazon's AWS. He first reached out to the U.S. State Department, as well as the Mexican Embassy, but had little success. The database contains all of the information that Mexican citizens need for their government-issued photo IDs that enable them to vote. Along with their municipality, and district information, the database records include the voter's name, address, voter ID number, date of birth, the names of their parents, occupation, and more. [...] Given that the database has been online since September 2015, it isn't clear how many people have accessed the records. Additionally, the actual owner of the account hosting the data remains unknown.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2872782, member: 7629"] [SIZE=5][B] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]another large database compromise ... [/SIZE][/FONT][URL='https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records'][/URL][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B][URL='https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records'][/URL][/B] [B][URL='https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records']MongoDB Config Error Exposed 93M Mexican Voter Records[/URL] [URL='http://www.csoonline.com/article/3060204/security/mongodb-configuration-error-exposed-93-million-mexican-voter-records.html'] (csoonline.com) [/URL] [URL='https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1857253/mongodb-config-error-exposed-93m-mexican-voter-records#comments']62[/URL] [/B][/SIZE] April 22, 2016 [I]A 132 GB database, containing the personal information on [URL='http://www.csoonline.com/article/3060204/security/mongodb-configuration-error-exposed-93-million-mexican-voter-records.html']93.4 million Mexican voters has finally been taken offline[/URL]. The database sat exposed to the public for at least eight days after its discovery by researcher Chris Vickery, but originally went public in September 2015. Vickery, who works as a security researcher at Kromtech, discovered the MongoDB instance on April 14, but had difficulty tracking down the person or company responsible for placing the voter data on Amazon's AWS. He first reached out to the U.S. State Department, as well as the Mexican Embassy, but had little success. The database contains all of the information that Mexican citizens need for their government-issued photo IDs that enable them to vote. Along with their municipality, and district information, the database records include the voter's name, address, voter ID number, date of birth, the names of their parents, occupation, and more. [...] Given that the database has been online since September 2015, it isn't clear how many people have accessed the records. Additionally, the actual owner of the account hosting the data remains unknown.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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