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"Although the UpGuard Cyber Risk Team has found and helped to secure multiple data exposures involving sensitive defense intelligence data, this is the first time that clearly classified information has been among the exposed data," UpGuard notes.
But the company put its customers and its network at risk after it left open an Amazon S3 storage bucket — an all too common cause of data exposures — containing tens of gigabytes of files.
But human error, a lack of security smarts or just sheer laziness makes exposed data more discoverable, and yet there's no sign of data exposures dying down any time soon.
The company may also face action from European authorities under GDPR, the new data protection regulation, which can fine a company up to four percent of its global worldwide revenue for data breaches and negligent data exposures.
It's the latest in a string of data exposures and bugs that have put Facebook user data at risk after the Cambridge Analytica scandal this year, which saw a political data firm vacuum up profiles on 87 million users to use for election profiling — including users' likes and interests.
In recent weeks, several high-profile data exposures have been reported as a result of companies' failure to practice basic data security measures — including Urban Massage exposing its own customer database, Mindbody-owned FitMetrix forgetting to put a password on its servers and Voxox, a communications company, which leaked phone numbers and two-factor codes on millions of unsuspecting users.
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Test 3: Sensitive data exposure.
Not one, but three bugs led to the data exposure.
With 5,700 mobile employees, PeopleSoft's data exposure was great.
Taylor added that the data exposure was not related to Texas' statewide voter registration database.
The technique minimizes the sensitive data exposure during the data detection for outsourcing data securely.
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