Streaming Platform Gaint Lionsgate Exposes Over 37m Users’ Data
March 24, 2023
Cyber Attack
/ data breach
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, exposed users’ IP addresses and data on the content they saw on its movie-streaming service. According to Cybernews analysts, Lionsgate Play, a video streaming service, had exposed user information via an open ElasticSearch instance. The platform is run by the Canadian-American entertainment company Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, which owns several well-known film and television franchises that have become famous, including The Hunger Games, Saw, Terminator, The Twilight Saga, and The Divergent Series. Almost 37 million people worldwide subscribe to Lionsgate, which made $3.6 billion in income the previous year. Leak Caused By an Unprotected ElasticSearch Instance “An unprotected 20GB of server logs that contained nearly 30 million entries, with the oldest dated May 2022. The logs exposed subscribers’ IP addresses and user data concerning device, operating system, and web browser”, explains Cybernews