FR8, India's largest truck brokerage and freight delivery company, is facing a serious data leak issue. Anurag Sen, an IT security researcher working with Italian cyber security firm FlashStart, discovered a misconfigured server on Shodan, a search engine used by cybersecurity researchers to locate vulnerable Internet of Things devices, which was exposing more than 140 gigabytes of data to the public without any password or security authentication. This data includes sensitive information such as customer records, invoices, and payment details, as well as personal information such as names, addresses, and contact numbers of both customers and employees. The researchers informed FR8 about the leak, but they have not received any response as their only contact email address available to the public is bouncing back all emails. With India's population of over 1.4 billion people, it is a lucrative place for businesses to invest and for cybercriminals to target, making the IT infrastructure more vulnerable. The server is still live and there has been no response from the company, so the chances of misuse and abuse of data are high if it gets into the hands of a third party with malicious intent. In 2020, researchers identified over 10,000 unsecured databases that exposed more than 10 billion records to public access without any security authentication, and this number increased to 399,200 in 2021.
This Cyber News was published on www.hackread.com. Publication date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 01:33:02 +0000