UK Consultancies Leak Data on Thousands of Workers

guest · Jan 15, 2020

UK Consultancies Leak Data on Thousands of Workers
January 15, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-consultancies-leak-data/

Thousands of UK business professionals have had their personal details exposed online via a leaky Amazon Web Services bucket, after researchers discovered files belonging to multiple consulting firms.

However, as the firm has no website the researchers have been unable to confirm ownership of the database, labelled “CHS.”
What they do know is that it contained files from the HR departments of multiple UK consulting firms including Eximius Consultants, Dynamic Partners and IQ Consulting. Most of the data is from 2014-15 although records go back to 2011.

“Had criminal hackers discovered this database, it would have been a goldmine for illicit activities and fraud, with potentially devastating results for those exposed,” argued vpnMentor.
The researchers contacted the CERT-UK on December 10, a day after discovering the leak, and followed up with AWS a week later. The cloud giant took action a day later on December 19 to secure the database.
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vpnMentor: Report: 1,000s of UK Consultants and Firms Exposed in Huge Data Leak

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