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Re:Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the I... by m8rl on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:57AM (#9026434)
German IT-news-site heise.de is reporting on it, I guess there'll be an english translation soon.

http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Studenten-entdecken-Tau...

Original (German language) press release is here: http://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/news/article/nr/12173.html

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Re:Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the I... by fabian2k on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:05AM (#9026460)
And it's not just small stuff either, 8 million phone numbers and addresses in one case. That is beyond embarrassing.
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Re:Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the I... by Fiahil on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @08:17AM (#9026884)
What is even more embarrassing, is the lack of proper acknowledgment from the French Telecommunication provider (Bouygues Telecom?) regarding the safety of their customers' data.
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Re:Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the I... by spacecowboy_lon on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @07:08AM (#9026659)
Lol I remember finding back in 92 that the ITU's gopher server had all of my employers x.500 directory - a more inocent time :-)
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