Thousands of Borrowers’ Data Exposed from ENCollect Debt Collection Service

An ElasticSearch server instance that was left open on the Internet without a password contained sensitive financial information about loans from Indian and African financial services.
The leak, which was discovered by researchers from information security company UpGuard, amounted to 5.8GB and consisted of a total of 1,686,363 records.
“Those records included personal information like name,