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Chinese database exposes 42.5 million records compiled from multiple dating apps

Most of the data was about American users.

May 29, 2019 By Jeff Stone

Elasticsearch, Hacken — Screenshot from Hacken’s report on exposed Elasticsearch servers. (Hacken)

Data about 57 million people exposed by Elasticsearch servers

Cybersecurity organization Hacken said it found the misconfigured servers as part of a regular security audit. The data appears to come from millions of U.S. residents.

Nov 28, 2018 By Jared Beinart