&gt; A MongoDB database open to the outside world on a public IP address?<p>Maybe someone was inspired by this article?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;its-still-the-data-stupid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.shodan.io&#x2F;its-still-the-data-stupid&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; At the moment, there are at least 35,000 publicly available, unauthenticated instances of MongoDB running on the Internet. [...] all of the exposed databases combined account for 684.8 TB of data.