Over 8 billion real-time internet records of Thai users exposed in massive data leak: Report

Over 8 billion real-time Internet records of users of Thailand’s largest cell network, AIS, were leaked online through a database which has now been secured, according to a report by TechCrunch.

The leak was first spotted by security researcher Justin Paine, who alerted the cell network company on May 13. After a week of receiving no response from the company, Payne then contacted Thailand’s data watchdog, the Thailand National CERT team (ThaiCERT) team, who questioned AIS on the same.

The company later took the database offline, thus securing the records.

“AIS is Thailand’s largest GSM mobile phone operator with 39.87 million customers as of 2016,” Payne wrote in a blog post detailing the incident.