About 26,000 MongoDB databases were wiped in a cyber attack carried out by more than 75,000 groups of hackers recently, who demanded between 0.05BTC and 0.15BTC ( around $650 ) to restore the systems. According to Dylan Katz , who runs Netherlands -based non-profit security group GDI Foundation , 99 percent of the 21,000 MongoDB unsecured instances have been hacked, with 21,000 victims. Messages without payment info will be ignored". The attacks began last December and in January , MongoDB warned users in an advisory to deploy protections, but the message appears to have been ignored.
About 26,000 MongoDB databases were wiped in a cyber attack carried out by more than 75,000 groups of hackers recently, who demanded between 0.05BTC and 0.15BTC ( around $650 ) to restore the systems. According to Dylan Katz , who runs Netherlands -based non-profit security group GDI Foundation , 99 percent of the 21,000 MongoDB unsecured instances have been hacked, with 21,000 victims. The attacks began last December and in January , MongoDB warned users in an advisory to deploy protections, but the message appears to have been ignored.