Telegraph left 10 TB database with subscriber details unsecured

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Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of database with subscriber details
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Telegraph newspaper exposed 10TB of database with subscriber details

Data exposed included users' full names, email addresses, URL requests and authentication tokens

The Telegraph left 10 TB of subscriber data and server logs open to a breach after failing to properly secure one of its Elasticsearch cluster for several days. The mistake was uncovered by secu...

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