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Dow Jones list of high-risk businesses, people on unsecured database

Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected 4.4GB Elasticsearch database chock-full of more than 2.4 million records of people and businesses considered to be high-risk by Dow Jones. The watchlist, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), includes special interest persons, current and past politicians, people with terrorism links, sanctioned companies and individuals, as well as those convicted of financial crimes. A third-party company left the watchlist on a public server without even so much as a password.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3347336/dow-jones-watchlist-of-high-risk-businesses-people-found-on-unsecured-database.html

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