Entire population of Brazil possibly exposed in massive data leak

The private data of hundreds of millions of Brazilian individuals were publicly accessible to threat actors, putting individuals at risk. Cybernews research revealed a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance, which contained a staggering amount of private data belonging to Brazilian individuals. Elasticsearch is a commonly used tool for the search, analysis, and visualization of large volumes […]

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