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Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS data breach (2018)

In October 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified multiple exposed databases with hundreds of millions of records. One of those datasets was an Elasticsearch instance on AWS containing sales lead data and 5.8M unique email addresses.

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Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS
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5.8M
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-10-29, Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS was affected by a data breach. Approximately 5,788,169 accounts were exposed. In October 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified multiple exposed databases with hundreds of millions of records. One of those datasets was an Elasticsearch instance on AWS containing sales lead data and 5.8M unique email addresses.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ElasticsearchInstanceofSalesLeadsonAWS

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