<ul><li>A cybersecurity researcher discovered an exposed Elasticsearch database with millions of login credentials on May 6.</li><li>The database contained 184 million records taking up 47 gigabytes of storage space, with login credentials associated with millions of accounts from various services like Google, Facebook, Roblox, Discord, and others.</li><li>There were 220 email addresses with .gov domains linked to government agencies in at least 29 countries, including the U.S., UK, and Australia.</li><li>The database was hosted on infrastructure operated by World Host Group, a U.K.-based hosting provider, which took it down after being notified by the researcher.</li></ul>

Cybersecurity researcher discovers database with millions of login credentials

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