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by mortehu 3837 days ago
> A MongoDB database open to the outside world on a public IP address?

Maybe someone was inspired by this article?

https://blog.shodan.io/its-still-the-data-stupid/

> At the moment, there are at least 35,000 publicly available, unauthenticated instances of MongoDB running on the Internet. [...] all of the exposed databases combined account for 684.8 TB of data.