Well-known Gearbest, a major Chinese online shopping company, exposed millions of user profiles and purchase orders, according to researchers security.
Researcher Noam Rotem discovered that an Elasticsearch server is leaking millions of files every weekteam. These include customer data, orders and records from payments. The server is not even password protected, allowing anyone to access the data.
Gearbest is ranked one of the top 250 websites worldwide and cooperates with leading companies such as Asus, Huawei, Intel and Lenovo.
The TechCrunch website contacted Gearbest via a dedicated security page, and made sure to inform them of the vulnerable server. Despite the report, however, the company did not lock the data or respond to the request.
Rotem, who shared them his findings with TechCrunch, said that there are names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and customer orders from purchased products among the data being released. The database also had information on payments and invoices.
"The content of some people's orders has been very revealing," says Rotem.
Exposed orders not only violate customers' privacy but may compromise customers in many parts of the world where freedom of speech and expression is limited. Some of the listings include sex games and other markets that could for example lead to legal interference where LGBTQ relationships are forbidden by law.
Countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan have strict laws that can result in death sentences.
Shenzhen-based Gearbest has a large presence in Europe, with warehouses in Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, where the laws of protectionof data and privacy of the EU. So any company that violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be fined up to 4% of its total revenue.
If you have an account on the website, there is no point in changing your password, as the server is still a bare vine. What you can do though is change your password where usesthe same
How to Enable and Disable a User in Windows 10
