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It’s the latest example of exposed or leaking data - where companies fail to protect their users’ data by protecting their databases with a password or basic security mechanisms. The database was exposed since at least August 4, according to data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases. It appeared near-instantly, indicating the database was live updating and was not a static backup file. TechCrunch verified the exposed data by creating an account on the site and searching for the username we had just created in the database. There were no passwords in the database, however. We found that although some accounts signed up with a fake email address, our testing showed that many of the emails were real, allowing us to identify real-world individuals who used the site. Those records also contained users’ non-public email addresses. The exposed data also included records that connected all of a user’s activity on the site, including their username, blog posts, followers and locations. The data also contained details of the site’s 19.7 million photos. The database contained what appeared to be the site’s entire back-end database, including more than 235,000 albums, 30,000 user blog posts and 900 videos. “We will be reaching out to any compromised users to warn them about the potential exposure of their private email addresses,” said the site owner. Only after we published, the site’s owner responded to our emails and confirmed the security lapse. We passed on a message to the site’s web host, which took action to block access to the database, allowing us to publish.
We sent the owner a note through the site’s contact form, through Facebook Messenger and over a LinkedIn contact request, and we sent several text messages based off the site’s historical registration data. We emailed the owner - whose email address was found in the very first user record - to disclose the security lapse, but we did not hear back after several follow-ups. But our efforts to reach the site owner over the past week to get the database secured were unsuccessful.