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ITworld Today Jan 04, 2017 Exposed MongoDB installs being erased, held for ransom Security researcher Victor Gevers, co-founder of the GDI Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to making the internet safer, is urging administrators to check their MongoDB installations, after finding nearly two hundred of them wiped and being held for ransom. 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