An internet-facing Estee Lauder database, with no password protection, has been found to have exposed more than 440 million records
On January 30, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a database online that contained what he says was “a massive amount of records.” That internet-facing database had no password protection in place, contained a total of 440,336,852 records, and was connected to the New York-based cosmetics giant, Estee Lauder.