Explore content focused on the vulnerabilities and threats associated with cloud storage services. Articles examine misconfigured storage buckets, unauthorized access, data exfiltration risks, lack of encryption, and compliance pitfalls that organizations encounter when storing sensitive data in cloud environments.
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A Single Misconfigured Bucket Exposed 3 Billion Records In 2021, Cognyte left an unsecured database containing over 5 billion records — scraped from previous breaches — sitting in a cloud storage instance with no authentication required. Anyone with a browser could reach it. That's not a sophisticated nation-state attack. That&
The Misconfigured Bucket That Exposed 540 Million Records In 2019, researchers at UpGuard discovered that Facebook user data — over 540 million records — sat exposed on misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets maintained by third-party app developers. Nobody hacked anything. Nobody exploited a zero-day. The data was simply left open to the public
A Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket Exposed 3 Billion Records In early 2023, security researchers discovered that a misconfigured cloud storage instance at Toyota had been leaking vehicle location data for over a decade — affecting 2.15 million customers. That wasn't a sophisticated nation-state attack. It was a configuration
The Misconfigured Bucket That Exposed 540 Million Records In 2019, researchers at UpGuard discovered that Facebook app developers had stored hundreds of millions of user records in Amazon S3 buckets with public access enabled. No hacking. No zero-day exploit. Just a misconfiguration checkbox that nobody reviewed. That single oversight sits
A Single Misconfigured Bucket Cost Them Everything In 2023, Toyota disclosed that a cloud misconfiguration had exposed the vehicle location data of 2.15 million customers for over a decade. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated threat actor. It was a single storage bucket set to public instead
