A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected. The sites, run by Barcelona-based VTS Media, include amateur.tv, webcampornoxxx.net, and placercams.com. Most of the sites’ users are based in Spain and Europe, but we found evidence of users across the world, including the United States. The database, containing months-worth of daily logs of the site activities, was left without a password for weeks. Those logs included detailed records of when users logged in — including usernames and sometimes their user-agents and IP addresses.
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Experts Comments
November 05, 2019
Unprotected systems directly accessible over the Internet are never a good thing. In this case, it seems that the logs being centrally collected, which from a security perspective is a good thing. Were it not left unprotected. Whenever possible, systems should be placed on the internal/trusted network and only accessible by individual users through a VPN. By maintaining such approach, it is difficult to accidentally deploy a system that is accessible by anyone with access to the Internet.
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