You may have heard of the recent (and ongoing) hacks targeting open source database solutions like MongoDB and Apache Hadoop. From what we know, an unknown number of hackers scanned for internet-accessible installations that had been set up using the default, non-secure configuration. Finding the exposure, these hackers then accessed the systems and in some cases deleted the files or held them for ransom.
These attacks were not technologically sophisticated,
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