Cayman Islands Bank Records Exposed in misconfigured Open Azure Blob

guest · Dec 2, 2020

Cayman Islands Bank Records Exposed in Open Azure Blob
December 1, 2020
https://threatpost.com/cayman-islands-bank-records-exposed-azure-blob/161729/

A Cayman Island investment firm has removed years of backups, which up until recently were easily available online thanks to a misconfigured Microsoft Azure blob. The blob’s single URL led to vast stores of files including personal banking information, passport data and even online banking PINs — which in addition to a security problem, presents a potential public-relations nightmare for a firm in the business of discreet, anonymous offshore financial transactions.

The massive cybersecurity blunder was pointed out by a researcher to The Register, which agreed not to disclose the name of the compromised bank in return for details about how this happened.
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The data has since been removed from view by the IT vendor.
Cybersecurity and legal expert Ilia Kolochenko, who founded and serves as the CEO of ImmuniWeb, said the investment firm should expect fallout from the breach.
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