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2021 Database leak — 1.1B records exposed

2021 1.1B records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Passwords, Session tokens, Search history

Technical writeup

204GB database exposed online without password protection. Customer search history for medications and COVID-19 vaccines, metadata, visitor IDs, session IDs. Hosted by third-party vendor.

Root cause

Unprotected database; third-party vendor hosting.

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