Experts warn colossal breach exposes 24 billion records including personal info

Someone has been hoarding data leaks from across the web and putting them in a single Elasticsearch instance.
ZDNet

Some Elasticsearch security features are now free for everyone

Elastic NV, the company behind the Elasticsearch document-oriented database and search engine technology, announced yesterday plans to make access to some its product's top security features free to ...
ZDNet

Elasticsearch ransomware attacks now number in the thousands

There are an estimated 35,000 Elasticsearch clusters open to attack. Of these, Niall Merrigan, a solution architect who has been reporting on the attack numbers on Twitter, states that over 4,600 of ...
The Desert Sun

Application-Level Encryption at Rest Gains Attention in Elasticsearch Security Reviews

BERLIN, GERMANY, March 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — As organizations expand their use of Elasticsearch for analytics, observability, and operational data workloads ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 4,000 ElasticSearch Servers Found Hosting PoS Malware Files

The Kromtech Security Center has identified over 4,000 instances of ElasticSearch servers that are hosting files specific to two strains of POS (Point of Sale) malware — AlinaPOS and JackPOS.
Yahoo Finance

Elasticsearch Introduces Shield to Bring Integrated Security and Administrative Capabilities to Its Real-Time Search and Analytics Software Stack

LOS ALTOS, CA and AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - Jan 27, 2015) - Elasticsearch Inc., the company behind the massively popular real-time search and analytics ELK stack, today announced the ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 90 Million Records Leaked by Chinese Public Security Department

A publicly accessible and unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department of the Chinese province Jiangsu leaked two databases containing over 90 million ...