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Open S3 bucket exposes one million files of fitness brand V Shred

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A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket at V Shred exposed more that one million files, including PII on 99,000 people associated with the fitness brand’s customers. Researchers at vpnMentor led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered the open server and alerted the company, which apparently removed the file containing the most PII, but kept the…
Study: SMBs lack thorough understanding of state data breach notification laws
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Open AWS S3 bucket exposes sensitive Experian and census info on 123 million U.S. households

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Another cloud-based data repository, this one belonging to Alteryx, has publicly exposed datasets from the data analytics firm’s partner Experian and the U.S. Census Bureau that contain sensitive personal information on 123 million U.S. households. In what has become an alarmingly regular occurrence, UpGuard disclosed its Director of Cyber Risk Research Chris Vickery had found…
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Sensitive data on former U.S. military personnel exposed on Amazon S3 repository

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The resumes of about 6,000 former U.S. military personnel, many with top secret security clearance, were left exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 server. Security contractor TigerSwan has pinned the lapse on recruiting firm TalentPen that it used to process job applicants. The Amazon S3 was used to transfer documents from TalentPen to TigerSwan. “We…
Walmart reportedly teamed up with Lockheed Martin and FBI to monitor employees.
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Open AWS S3 bucket managed by Walmart jewelry partner exposes info on 1.3M customers

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Personal information belonging to 1.3 million customers of Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company has been exposed because yet another Amazon S3 bucket was left open on the internet. The open S3 bucket, named “walmartsql,” housed an MSSQL database backup, named MBMWEB_backup_2018_01_13_003008_2864410.bak, that “contained internal MBM mailing lists, encrypted credit card details, payment details, promo codes,…
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PayMyTab database leaked PII on diners

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An exposed database belonging to PayMyTab leaked PII on customers who dined at restaurants using the mobile payment system. An anonymous third party discovered the open AWS S3 bucket and brought it to the attention of researchers at vpnMonitor through Helen Foster, a partner at the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm in Washington. “This leak…
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DDoS attacks took down Calif. Democratic hopeful’s website during primaries

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A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took down California Democratic congressional hopeful Bryan Caforio’s website just hours before he stepped onto the debate stage to face fellow Democrats. “As I saw firsthand, dealing with cyberattacks is the new normal when running for office, forcing candidates to spend time fending off those attacks when they…
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