BabyChakra Data Breach (2021)

The data leak was a result of misconfiguration in one of the company’s servers The entire data was 259 GB in size and included photos, videos, personal details of the users BabyChakra could have easily avoided exposing its customers’ data if it had taken some basic security measures, says VPNMentor Mumbai-based online parenting platform BabyChakra exposed the data of its users — which includes parents and indirectly their children — due to a misconfiguration in one of its servers. The misconfiguration made over 5.5 Mn files, belonging to a few hundred thousand individuals, publicly accessible. The entire data is said to be 259 GB in size and includes photos, videos, personal details and other sensitive information of the users.