350 million email addresses exposed on misconfigured AWS S3 bucket

mood · Aug 15, 2020

350 million email addresses exposed on misconfigured AWS S3 bucket
August 14, 2020
https://www.hackread.com/350-million-email-addresses-misconfigured-aws-s3-bucket/

In the latest, it has been found that 350 million unique email addresses were sitting exposed on a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket for public access without any security authentication.

According to CyberNews’ blog post, the remaining files included other data such as the voice recording of people pitching a product named “Repwatch” which has now stopped its services.
As for the timeline of the data exposure, the researchers believe that the data may have been acquired from a black market in 2018 by the unknown owner and then uploaded to the bucket.

The incident should not come as a surprise since misconfigured databases have exposed billions of sensitive records in the last couple of years. In fact, the situation is so critical that according to a new poll database configuration errors are the number one threat to cloud security.
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Cyble: 350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Due to the fact that we were unable to identify the owner of the exposed data bucket, we reached out to Amazon to help them secure it on June 10. They were able to close the bucket on the same day.

Since the number of emails exposed by the unidentified owner of the data bucket is so massive, there is a chance that your email address might be among those leaked.
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