"If You Want to Stop Big Data Breaches, Start With Databases"

Data breaches have increasingly become more common over the past few years due to poor security configurations of databases directly linked to the internet. Though any type of database can be susceptible to data breaches if poorly configured, “NoSQL” databases has significantly faced more breaches. This article discusses how NoSQL databases that utilize the MongoDB database program are vulnerable to breaches and attacks, notable incidents involving these types of databases, poor configuration settings, and the struggle to raise awareness of these problems.

WIRED reports "If You Want to Stop Big Data Breaches, Start With Databases"