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Using a combination of relatively low-tech techniques and tools, security researchers have discovered that they can access the contents of one in six Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Those ...

Editors' note: This article and its headline was updated to correct details about ownership of the S3 bucket and contents therein. Another week, another publicly accessible AWS storage cloud found to ...

Personal and business data belonging to Boston area meeting and hotel booking provider Groupize was discovered in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, which has since been locked down.

A Walmart jewelry partners’ misconfigured AWS S3 bucket left personal details and contact information of 1.3 million customers in plain sight. A misconfigured Amazon (S3) Simple Storage Service bucket ...

Another Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration breach, this time with AgentRun, has resulted in an insurance start-up exposing data for clients, including Cigna, Transamerica, SafeCo Insurance, Schneider ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a scalable object storage service provided by AWS that enables users to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web. It is widely used for a variety of ...

Amazon's Web Services division has rolled out new security features to AWS account owners today that are meant to prevent accidental data exposures caused by the misconfiguration of S3 data storage ...

Each new week seemingly brings with it another disturbing discovery of personal data left unsecured and exposed on the internet. Different companies — spanning industries as varied as pornography, ...

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