http://www.networkworld.com/article/3015999/over-650-terabytes-of-data-up-for-grabs-due-to-publicly-exposed-mongodb-databases.html
By Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service
Dec 16, 2015
There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB
databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing.
Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.
Matherly originally sounded the alarm about this issue back in July, when
he found nearly 30,000 unauthenticated MongoDB instances. He decided to
revisit the issue after a security researcher named Chris Vickery recently
found information exposed in such databases that was associated with 25
million user accounts from various apps and services, including 13 million
users of the controversial OS X optimization program MacKeeper.
Matherly's new results show an increase of over 5,000 insecure MongoDB
instances since July, a somewhat surprising result giving that newer
versions of the database no longer have a default insecure configuration.
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