A Sprint contractor left thousands of US cell phone bills on the internet by mistake

guest · Dec 4, 2019

A Sprint contractor left thousands of US cell phone bills on the internet by mistake
December 4, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/sprint-contractor-cell-phone-bills-exposed/

A contractor working for cell giant Sprint stored on an unprotected cloud server hundreds of thousands of cell phone bills of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers.

The storage bucket had more than 261,300 documents, the vast majority of which were phone bills belonging to cell subscribers dating as far back as 2015. But the bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), was not protected with a password, allowing anyone to access the data inside.
It’s not known how long the bucket was exposed.

It’s not known why the data was exposed in the first place. It’s not uncommon for AWS storage buckets to be misconfigured by being set to “public” and not “private.”
U.K.-based penetration testing company Fidus Information Security found the exposed data [...]
“The uptrend we’re seeing in sensitive data being publicly accessible is concerning, despite Amazon releasing tools to help combat this,” said Harriet Lester, director of research and development at Fidus.
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