On the eve of releasing its financial earnings for the past quarter , Honda created a situation described by one security researcher as “ a hacker ’s dream ” . According to Verdict , 40 GB of critical company data – amounting to 134 m rows of system data – was stored on an unsecured Elasticsearch database . This meant that anyone who knew where to look could have come across the company ’s most sensitive data , not only including information about the company ’s security systems and networks , but also technical data on all of its IP addresses , operating systems and what patches they had . ;