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Social Data (TikTok / Instagram / YouTube Scrape)

19 Aug 2020 · National · Technology

Data Leak / Misconfiguration HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

An unsecured Elasticsearch database owned by data broker Social Data left billions of records open to the web without authentication. The dataset consisted of scraped profile metrics, real names, age brackets, and contact details of global social media influencers.

Incident details

Organisation

Social Data (TikTok / Instagram / YouTube Scrape)

Date

19 Aug 2020

Attack type

Data Leak / Misconfiguration

Severity

HIGH

Sector

Technology

State

National

Records affected

235000000

Threat actor

Human Error

Source

comparitech.com ↗

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