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title: "Whitepaper: Exposed Databases: When it Leaks, Hackers Breach"
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# Exposed Databases: When It Leaks, Hacker's Breach

## Introduction How is your business vulnerable?

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. Unfortunately, a large number of databases are left exposed with little to no authentication. These open databases result in organizations of all sizes, unknowingly, leaving back doors to their data open, which can be exploited to devastating effect by hackers. With original research from CybelAngel and ISMG.

### Download this whitepaper for:

- ### A description of the extent of the “Open Database Leaks” problem
- ### An identification of what and where the main vulnerabilities are
- ### An illustration of the ways in which leaks are exploited
- ### An explanation of how CybelAngel’s Digital Risk Protection Platform and cybersecurity expertise can be used to discover and fix exposure before leaks become breaches

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