Yale University exposed a data store containing sensitive information belonging to 43,000 individuals on an FTP server. Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants, Inc. exposed a database with sensitive information for nearly 300,000 people behind a web application that required no password to access. Security experts say search engines are the great equalizer when it comes to ferreting out gaps in database policy compliance. Many in the security field believe that as Google continues to add features such as FTP indexing to bolster its Web and desktop search functionalities, the risk of poorly configured databases being exposed by the engine will skyrocket.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/web-searchable-databases-an-increasing-security-risk