Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online

Elsevier, the company behind scientific journals such as The Lancet, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. edu [educational institute] accounts, either students or teachers,” Mossab Hussein, chief security officer at cybersecurity company SpiderSilk who found the issue, told Motherboard in an online chat. Elsevier secured the server after Motherboard approached the company for comment.

Source: motherboard.vice.com