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20 May 2019 · National · Technology
Data Leak / Misconfiguration HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

A massive cloud-hosted database owned by social media marketing firm Chtrbox was left exposed online without a password. The database contained scraped profile metadata, bio metrics, and verified contact emails for millions of global influencers, including thousands in Australia.

Incident details

Organisation
Instagram
Date
20 May 2019
Attack type
Data Leak / Misconfiguration
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Technology
State
National
Records affected
49000000
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

ia.acs.org.au ↗
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