Security Threats to Hadoop: Data Leakage Attacks and Investigation

As one of the most popular platforms for processing Big Data, Hadoop has low costs, convenience, and fast speed. However, it is also a significant target of data leakage attacks, as a growing number of businesses and individuals store and process their private data in it. How to investigate data leakage attacks in Hadoop is an important but long-neglected issue. This article first presents some possible data leakage attacks in Hadoop. Then an investigation framework is proposed and tested based on some simulated cases.