U.S. Elasticsearch Leak: 676M+ Identity Records & SSNs Exposed

SOCRadar discovered an unauthenticated Elasticsearch cluster (91.72 GB) publicly exposing ~676,798,866 U.S. identity records that include full Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers; the report validates sample records, assesses severe identity-fraud risk, and describes intelligence ingestion and coordinated takedown efforts while recommending hardening to prevent similar misconfigurations.