More than 400GB of public and private profile data for 214 million social-media users from around the world has been exposed to the internet. The leak stems from a misconfigured ElasticSearch database owned by Chinese social media management company SocialArks. The server was found to be publicly exposed without password protection or encryption during routine IP-address checks on potentially unsecured databases. It contained more than 318 million records in total, including details for celebrities and influencers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Source: https://threatpost.com/social-profiles-leaked-chinese-data-scrapers/162936/