# Elasticsearch search locked with ransomeware

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698 "2018-09-15T10:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![kavtaradze.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb9ed0/32.png) [@kavtaradze.s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kavtaradze.s)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698/1 "2018-09-15T10:44:02Z")

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I have not protected elasticsearch, so someone hacked it, left new index with contents where to transfer bitcoins. Data I can regenerate, the questions is how can I get rid of that. Accessing the indices directly works, but search scripts return http code 400 when I do curl requests with php. Any ideas?

edit:  
I removed the folder and created index from the beginning. It did not fix anything.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698/2 "2018-09-15T10:58:52Z")

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Do not expose your elasticsearch cluster directly to internet without any protection.

You can use [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) as well.

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**Author:** ![kavtaradze.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb9ed0/32.png) [@kavtaradze.s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kavtaradze.s)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698/3 "2018-09-15T11:49:31Z")

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Thanks for answering, but how someone was able to prevent me from querying the index?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698/4 "2018-09-15T12:17:49Z")

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What query are you running? Please test without php but curl commands.  
What version?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-search-locked-with-ransomeware/148698/5 "2018-10-13T12:17:55Z")

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