# Failed to execute bulk item (update) BulkShardRequest

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-bulk-item-update-bulkshardrequest/242687>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 27, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-bulk-item-update-bulkshardrequest/242687 "2020-07-27T05:52:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-bulk-item-update-bulkshardrequest/242687/4 "2020-07-27T07:20:04Z")

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You should consider upgrading to 6.8.0 if that's possible. If not, you really need to at least make sure that your cluster is not publicly accessible anymore.

Also I hope you have snapshots/backups of your data that was deleted.

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