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Ongoing Meow attack has nuked 1k databases without telling anyone why

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• chrisandchris 6y ago
  > “I think that in most [of the latter] cases, malicious actors behind the attacks do it just for fun, [...] I agree. I don‘t see any deeper sense in purging unsecured databases on the web. I think leaving a database wide open in the web just calls for such actions...
  • heavenlyblue 6y ago
    To be fair, that should be an effective way of making the problem of data privacy a problem of the companies leaving their databases open.