Over 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases have been deleted over the past three weeks, with only a message left behind asking the owners of the databases to contact the cyber-extortionists to have the ...

MongoHQ, which provides hosting and support for the open-source Mongo database, said attackers may have accessed several of its customers’ databases earlier this week. On Monday, someone accessed an ...

An attacker going by the name of Harak1r1 is hijacking unprotected MongoDB databases, stealing and replacing their content, and asking for a Bitcoin ransom to return the data. These attacks have been ...

Two years after hacker groups began ransacking MongoDB databases and requesting ransom payments, the practice is still very much alive, ZDNet has learned this week. While the original hacker groups ...