#cloud security solution providers

Database breaches in the public cloud are getting reported at an alarming frequency. Earlier this year, we read about a database breach that exposed over 275 Million user records. We will cover the common causes and the best practice checks that organizations should follow to ensure database security in the cloud.

Cause

A huge MongoDB database exposing 275,265,298 records of Indian citizens containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) was left unprotected on the Internet for more than two weeks.

Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko discovered this publicly accessible MongoDB database hosted on Amazon AWS using Shodan, and as the historical data provided by the platform showed, this huge cache of PII data was first indexed on April 23, 2019.