A public database exposed medical records of 150,000 rehab patients

Nearly 150,000 patients who sought treatment at an addiction recovery facility in Pennsylvania had their medical records exposed online. Through the public search engine Shodan, independent researcher Justin Paine found an ElasticSearch database with...

Shodan is a Search Engine that Expose Internet-Connected Devices


Shodan is a search engine that has totally different crawling methods than Google. Google crawls online websites while Shodan crawls online devices like his founder said. A 29-year-old young guy...