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OCR Software Dev Exposes 200,000 Customer Documents

posted by chromas on Thursday August 30 2018, @07:20AM   
from the can-you-read-me-now? dept.

martyb writes:

Another week, another leak:

A misconfigured MongoDB server belonging to Abbyy, an optical character recognition software developer, allowed public access to customer files.

Independent security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the database on August 19 hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. It was 142GB in size and it allowed access without the need to log in.

The sizeable database included scanned documents of the sensitive kind: contracts, non-disclosure agreements, internal letters, and memos. Included were more than 200,000 files from Abbyy customers who scanned the data and kept it at the ready in the cloud.

"Some collection names like 'documentRecognition,' or 'documentXML' hinted that database would be part of a data recognition company infrastructure," Diachenko writes in a blog post today.

[...] Volkswagen, Deloitte, PwC, PepsiCo, Sberbank, McDonald's are just a few of Abbyy's clients.

Should have used invisible ink.

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• Re:Only so many times Re:Only so many times (Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:46AM (1 child)

  by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:46AM (#728213) Journal

  Gee, I do not know! Perhaps you could tell us, oh enlightened one!

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• Re:Only so many times (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:51AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:51AM (#728229)

  You tell us! [spiked-online.com] How's your journal and your ethics series coming along? As I recall, that was a positive contribution.

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