Original Release Date: 10/28/2019
Researchers at vpnMentor discovered an open Elasticsearch database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system. The database contained 179GB of data on hundreds of thousands of past and future booking reservations, and included details such as guests’ full names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, dates and costs of travel, some check-in times, and room numbers. Within this collection is information on the travel arrangements of some US government and military personnel, potentially putting their operations and activities at risk.