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Motherboard reports Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online:
Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.
Elsevier, the company behind scientific journals such as The Lancet, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. The impacted users include people from universities and educational institutions from across the world.
It's not entirely clear how long the server was exposed or how many accounts were impacted, but it provided a rolling list of passwords as well as password reset links when a user requested to change their login credentials.
"Most users are .edu [educational institute] accounts, either students or teachers," Mossab Hussein, chief security officer at cybersecurity company SpiderSilk who found the issue, told Motherboard in an online chat. "They could be using the same password for their emails, iCloud, etc."
Hidden in plain sight.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ElizabethGreene on Monday March 25 2019, @11:21PM
That was my first question. Where can I get the data dump, because I'd love to mirror every drop of content they have over to b-ok.org.