StoreHub claims unprotected server didn’t leak personal data of over one million users (updated)


In its report, SafetyDetectives said it discovered the leak on Jan 12, estimating that it could have put over 1TB of data with 1.7 billion records and the personal information of over one million people at risk. — Shahadat Rahman/Unsplash

Updated with statement from StoreHub

PETALING JAYA: StoreHub denied that there was a data leak despite a server despite a misconfiguration in one of its Amazon Web Service (AWS) Elasticsearch servers that left data exposed.

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