Category: s3

Analytics firm exposed data for 120 million households

Post author By Randall
Post date February 21, 2020
Categories In bevmo, chipotle, data, data bucket, database, exposed, exposure, gear, Internet, kate spade, Privacy, s3, Security, Tech, tetrad

[ad_1] Tetrad responded relatively quickly. UpGuard said it found and notified Tetrad of the exposure on February 3rd, and a back-and-forth led to the data being locked down on February 10th. It’s not certain whether anyone besides UpGuard or Tetrad accessed the data, however. The findings underscore one of the problems with collecting data on […]

Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models

Post author By Randall
Post date January 16, 2020
Categories In amazon s3, cam model, camgirl, data leak, exposed, exposure, gear, imlive, Internet, porn, pornography, pussycash, s3, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered that a porn cam affiliate network, PussyCash, left nearly 20GB of models’ extremely sensitive data exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket. The repository included not only 875,000 keys for […]

Political committee left 6.2 million email addresses exposed for 9 years

Post author By Randall
Post date August 6, 2019
Categories In amazon s3, aws, cloud, democratic senatorial campaign commitee, dscc, Email, gear, hillary clinton, Internet, s3, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The data didn’t include anything more than the email addresses, so the potential for abuse was relatively small. However, it’s concerning that the S3 bucket gave everyone “full control,” letting people not only modify the list but change access permissions. The DSCC locked down its cloud storage within hours of UpGuard reporting the finding […]