Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
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A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including "no-fly" records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it.

The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it.

X leaked because of misconfigured elasticsearch is pretty much a meme at this point…

  • ksynwa
    6·
    3 years ago

    What does elasticsearch actually do? I went to their website and it’s written in corporate speak which I don’t understand.