Another data leak made the headlines, this time a database containing a
The huge trove of data included personal info (i.e. name, age, and date of birth, phone numbers, addresses) along with a “BreedReady” status.
The latter field is disconcerting, the field ‘BreedReady’ could indicate if a woman has children.
The database also contained GPS coordinates, URLs to photos, ID numbers, marital status, political and education related details, and a ‘HasVideo’ field.
The exposed database was discovered by the popular security researcher Victor Gevers, he found 29808 open in China.
China has 29808 open databases and is ranking in second place in the top 5 list of countries when it comes to unsafe MongoDB usage in the world. The US has been leading the first position with 45320 servers. Followed by Germany, the Netherlands, and France according to ZoomEye
— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) March 5, 2019pic.twitter.com/DD6GBNt0oh
Gevers discovered the database on Friday, he explained that a shortage of women in China led an organization into building a database containing details on millions of women.
In China, they have a shortage of women. So an organization started to build a database to start registering over 1,8 million women with all kinds of details like phone numbers, addresses, education, location, ID number, marital status, and a ”BreedReady" status?
— Victor Gevers (@0xDUDE) March 9, 2019pic.twitter.com/fbRKsbNHPJ
Most of the women in the exposed archive are single (89%) and live in Beijing, the youngest one in the database is 15 years old.
The researcher noticed that
Gevers also pointed out that the ‘HasVideo’ field could indicate that the women are being watched or monitored.
At the time of writing the ownership of the exposed DB is not known, after the disclosed his discovery via Tweet the database is no longer exposed online. Experts believe the archive could belong to an online dating service.
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