Billions of leaked conversations between Microsoft customer support agents and customers were left exposed on the web without a password, potentially putting users at risk of phishing and scams.
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A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access without a password or any other authentication. Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to uncover the Elasticsearch cluster. Diachenko believes the trove of data is most likely the result of […]
Researchers examined 100 secondhand smartphones from Ebay and discovered nearly 1 in 5 contained data from previous owners.
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Comparitech researchers found a massive trove of email addresses and passwords left online with no password or other authentication required to access it.