Edureka e-learning platform caught exposing data of 20 lakh students
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Amid growing cases of cyber-attacks and data breaches, Edureka, a renowned Bengaluru-based online learning platform, has been caught exposing personal user information. The start-up leaked the data of two million users through an unprotected Elasticsearch server, leaving it open to access by anyone who knew where to look on the internet. On the unprotected server, the team found a 25GB database with as many as 45 million records.