Ladders Database Exposed 13M User Records

Source Techcrunch.com

Employment-recruitment site Ladders exposed 13M User Records

Employment-recruitment site Ladders exposed left online a misconfigured AWS-hosted database that contained 13 million user records.

Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI Foundation, discovered a database belonging to the employment-recruitment site Ladders left exposed online on a misconfigured AWS-hosted database.

The archive contained 13 million user records, data related to job seekers who had signed up for the service. Exposed records included contact details, current compensation, and applicants’ employment histories.

“Ladders, one of the most popular job recruitment sites in the U.S. specializing in high-end jobs, has exposed more than 13.7 million user records following a security lapse.” reads a report published by
TechCrunch.

“The New York-based company left an Amazon -hosted Elasticsearch database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to access the data.”

Source Techcrunch.com

TechCrunch reported the discovery to company that quickly secured the database.

“AWS confirms that our AWS Managed Elastic Search is secure, and is only accessible by Ladders employees at indicated IP addresses. We will look into this potential theft, and would appreciate your assistance in doing so,” said Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of Ladders.

Experts confirmed that the database contained years’ worth of records.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – AWS, data leak)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.