A Single Misconfigured Bucket Exposed 2 Billion Records. Here's How.
One of the largest data exposures of the year traces back to a familiar culprit: a cloud storage setting left wide open.
Marcus Lee
Security Editor
The anatomy of an exposure
It wasn't a sophisticated nation-state attack. It wasn't a zero-day. It was a storage bucket configured for public access, indexed by a routine internet scan, and discovered by a security researcher doing what security researchers do.
Inside were two billion records: names, emails, partial payment data, and internal logs spanning years.
How it happened
Misconfiguration remains the most common cause of cloud data exposure. As organizations sprawl across hundreds of buckets and services, a single default-public setting can slip through review.
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