1,897,463 MongoDB services: how unauthenticated data stores became routine

1,897,463 MongoDB services: how unauthenticated data stores became routine The problem MongoDB and Redis share a pattern: both were designed to run inside a trusted network, both became a common backend for quickly written applications, and both continue to appear at scale in exposure data. When authentication is optional in practice, it is often absent in production. On 2026-09-30 (UTC) we queried ZoomEye for the MongoDB service fingerprint: Query: service="mongodb" Scope: all asset types, global Matching assets: 1,897,463 Search link: https://www.zoomeye.ai/searchResult?q=c2VydmljZT0ibW9uZ29