Beware Sending a Fax Online—It Might Not Be as Private as You Think

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Beware Sending a Fax Online—It Might Not Be as Private as You Think
May 14, 2020
https://gizmodo.com/beware-sending-a-fax-online-it-might-not-be-as-private-1843458066

According to Google Trends, in the last month, online searches for versions of “how to send a fax online” have skyrocketed as people turn to an untested ecosystem of online services to digitally submit the paperwork that their state’s unemployment office requires.

Gizmodo identified three separate commercial cloud storage servers containing, in total, hundreds of thousands of faxes from various online services, exposing a vast array of private information.
The presence of improperly secured data from these faxing services adds yet another concern to these supremely stressful days.

The documents Gizmodo uncovered were all stored in unsecured Amazon S3 buckets.
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One bucket belonging to a German company contains more than 500,000 faxes, each watermarked with a “FAX-ID” and the company’s logo. According to metadata associated with each file in the S3 bucket, the earliest fax to be stored in the bucket was from 2013, indicating that this problem has persisted for around seven years.

In a similar instance, Gizmodo found a collection of 70,000 faxes that appears to belong to another online faxing service.
The internet is full of side-hustles that entrepreneurial developers quickly cobble together and publish for anyone with an internet connection to use—online fax services are no different.
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