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Experts found an unsecured 16TB database containing 4.3B professional records (securityaffairs.com)

submitted 2 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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An open 16TB database exposed 4.3B professional records. It was unsecured and only closed after researchers alerted the owner. A 16TB unsecured MongoDB database exposed about 4.3 billion professional records, mainly LinkedIn-style data, enabling large-scale AI-driven social-engineering attacks. The researcher Bob Diachenko and nexos.ai discovered the unsecured DB on November 23, 2025, and it was […]

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Is it the OPM database again?

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

They left port 27017 open I presume?