%More Than 9 Million Facial Images Were Leaked Online%
A publicly accessible database linked to reverse image search service ClarityCheck exposed more than nine million images, including photographs of adults, teenagers, and children.
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was neither password-protected nor encrypted. It contained approximately 9,042,977 image files, amounting to 450.2GB of data. Most were stored in folders labeled “faces” and “profiles.”
Fowler said the images he reviewed included profile pictures, screenshots, and physical photographs that appeared to have been uploaded for reverse image searches or identity verification.
“I recently discovered a publicly exposed database that was neither password-protected nor encrypted,” Fowler said. “The database contained approximately 9,042,977 image files totaling 450.2GB of data.”
His investigation linked the files to ClarityCheck, a US-registered company that offers an online investigation service using reverse image search. Fowler found the cloud storage database URL in the source code of a public page. He could not determine...
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