Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: RailYatri
Affected country: India
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: One of India's most popular travel booking hubs has suffered a significant data breach that led to the loss of over 43GB of data as a result of a Meow bot attack. Preceding the attack, the affected Elastic search server was left publicly exposed for several days.