China suffers its largest data breach ever with 4 billion user records exposed, including WeChat, Alipay, and financial data.

CSA’s Top Threats to Cloud Computing Deep Dive 2025 reflects on eight recent real-world security breaches. The report presents the narrative of each incident, as well as the relevant cloud security risks and mitigations. Today we’re reflecting on the fifth incident covered in the Deep Dive: Darkbeam 2023.   Bob Diachenko, CEO of SecurityDiscovery, uncovered a public exposure of Darkbeam’s Elasticsearch and Kibana interface. This exposure was the result of human error—a misconfigu...

If you follow my work, you probably know that we at SecurityDiscovery regularly monitor Internet for public exposures. We don't use active scanning and rely only on public sources - data streams coming from a variety of IoT search engines.