---
id: 6620
title: "New Data Breach Exposes 57 Million Records"
source_domain: hackenproof.com
source_url: "https://hackenproof.com/blog/new-data-breach-exposes-57-million-records"
published_at: "2018-11-18T13:12:00Z"
tags: ["shodan", "misconfiguration", "data-breach", "pii", "elasticsearch", "incident", "security-news", "hackenproof-com"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6620"
lang: en
---

# New Data Breach Exposes 57 Million Records

## Summary

HackenProof revisits the 2018 open-Elasticsearch breach of 57 million US records—and eight years of larger misconfiguration leaks since, a pattern that keeps growing rather than going away.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackenproof.com
- **Published:** 2018-11-18T13:12:00Z
- **Original:** https://hackenproof.com/blog/new-data-breach-exposes-57-million-records
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6620