Groupon leaks entire Indian user database

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://risky.biz/sosasta

By Patrick Gray
Risky.biz
June 28, 2011

The entire user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary Sosasta.com was 
accidentally published to the Internet and indexed by Google.

The database includes the e-mail addresses and clear-text passwords of 
the site's 300,000 users. It was discovered by Australian security 
consultant Daniel Grzelak as he searched for publicly accessible 
databases containing e-mail address and password pairs.

Grzelak used Google to search for SQL database files that were web 
accessible and contained keywords like "password" and "gmail".

"A few hours and tweaks later, this database came up," he said. "I 
started scrolling, and scrolling and I couldn't get to the bottom of the 
file. Then I realised how big it actually was."

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