IT firm manager arrested in massive Ecuador data breach case affecting 20M people

The Next Web
By Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2019, 1:42 am99 pts
Ecuador offiicals have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 20 million individuals, including 6.7 million children. The 18GB cache of data was attributed to a leaky Elasticsearch server, but it has since been…

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