Tag: VPN tracking breach

Leak Zone Database Exposure: What Happened and What It Means

In July 2025, researchers at UpGuard found an Elasticsearch database, linked to the cybercrime forum Leak Zone, that anyone could read without a password. It held about 22 million records of web requests, each with an IP address, timestamp, location and internet provider, and UpGuard counted about 185,000 unique IP addresses.