More than 28,000 databases in open-source Internet platform hit by attackers demanding ransom

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[ad_1] It’s not a good year for users of MongoDB, the document-oriented open-source database used in many big data implementations. Thousands of improperly secured instances exposed to the Internet have been attacked and their data is being held for ransom. Security researcher Victor Gevers of the GDI Foundation first discovered that nearly 200 databases had…