- Jan 21, 2018
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"French daily newspaper Le Figaro exposed roughly 7.4 billion records containing personally identifiable information (PII) of reporters and employees, as well as of at least 42,000 users.
The data was exposed by an unsecured database owned by Le Figaro and containing over 8TB of data which was publicly accessible because of a misconfigured Elasticsearch server.
Le Figaro's site is the most visited news site in France with an audience of more than 23 million monthly unique visitors according to stats provided by Médiamétrie / NetRatings."
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The data was exposed by an unsecured database owned by Le Figaro and containing over 8TB of data which was publicly accessible because of a misconfigured Elasticsearch server.
Le Figaro's site is the most visited news site in France with an audience of more than 23 million monthly unique visitors according to stats provided by Médiamétrie / NetRatings."
French daily Le Figaro database exposes users’ personal info
French daily newspaper Le Figaro exposed roughly 7.4 billion records containing personally identifiable information (PII) of reporters and employees, as well as of at least 42,000 users.
