UpGuard revealed last Thursday that a set of sensitive documents belonging to popular hosting company GoDaddy had been left exposed due to a misconfigured AWS bucket. The security firm’s Cyber Risk Team said that the information that had been left public includes GoDaddy’s architecture and high-level...
Reports have recently revealed that cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery of UpGuard had found a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket containing the data of 48 million users scraped from various social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zillow. The data had been gathered...
According to researchers from security company UpGuard, around 12,000 influencers from platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Twitch had their sensitive information exposed by a French marketing firm called Octoly. The data breach leaked the true identities, street addresses, apartment numbers, phone numbers, email addresses,...
Chris Vickery of security company UpGuard recently divulged that the private information of US citizens in National Credit Federation’s (NCF) database had been leaked due to a misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket. Discovered last October 3, Vickery said that sensitive data kept...
Cybersecurity firm UpGuard revealed the private information of thousands of US military veterans hosted on an AWS S3 server have been compromised. Chris Vickery, UpGuard’s Director of Cyber Risk Research, said that the incident was caused by a misconfiguration of the storage bucket in the...
Last week, UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery discovered an exposed database containing personal voter information such as names, dates of birth, addresses, driver’s licenses, state ID numbers, and even partial social security numbers of 1.8 million Americans hosted on an AWS server. Vickery quickly reported the matter...
Electrical engineering firm Power Quality Engineering (PQE) in Texas has accidentally exposed clients' sensitive corporate information online because of a system oversight. UpGuard security researchers flagged the issue, identifying a port used for remote synchronization. Researchers say administrators were supposed to restrict access to the port,...