Do you remember the MongoDB apocalypse, when improperly configured online databases exposed 25TB of data? There’s now a much larger risk that threatens companies worldwide.
As it turns out, there’s a worse situation brewing with Hadoop HDFS-based servers.
Fewer servers, more exposure
Hadoop is an open-source framework that assists companies working on Big Data projects.
Many of these online installs are resulting in the exposure of five petabytes of data, according to Shodan, a search engine for Internet-connected devices.
To put that into perspective, these HDFS servers are leaking 200 times more data than the MongoDB servers ever did.
And MongoDB is a far more prevalent system, outnumbering the HDFS servers 10 to 1.
If your organization uses online databases, avoid a personal apocalypse by triple checking their permissions and share settings.
