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Researchers fromCybernewsrecently discovered an unprotected database that held personal information on approximately 223 million Brazilians.
The latter is a 11-digit taxpayer identifier.
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Poor password hygiene
Since making the discovery, the database was locked down.
This process is made even easier with Elasticsearch, a tool that simplifies the process of finding unprotected databases.
