Alteryx, a company apparently aggregating all kinds of data under contract for Experian is the latest company to leave their S3 buckets is a wide-open, world-readable state. And while a lot of the data seems to be public information anyway, there are some very sensitive items in there, including financial …

So, it’s bad enough when a government leaks secret data about you when you know they have it but it’s even worse when they leak information about you that you don’t know they have. Or maybe it’s not your government…who knows. At any rate, three …

Time Warner Cable, a company you think might be fairly schooled on the dangers of the Internet. However, it seems they were caught out when a contractor failed to properly secure an S3 bucket. Caught out to the tune of seven year’s worth of subscriber data. You can find …

Exposing customer (or employee) data to the world is pretty bad, and requires much mitigation. Maybe you have to buy credit monitoring services for the compromised users. Maybe you have to financially compensate them. But what happens when you leak the keys to the kingdom? UpGuard found a scary trove …

It’s pretty frustrating when a company with whom you’ve done business leaks some data about you, whether it be your address, age, or credit card number. But when an entity to whom you’ve entrusted data that should never be exposed to the public leaks data, the consequences …

I understand that the information in one’s resume might not be the most secret of information, but I have heard you’re not supposed to spread around the fact that you have a Top Secret clearance, so it’s really not a good thing that a TigerSwan recruiting vendor …

We’ve read plenty of articles about S3 buckets left wide open to anyone to read. But even if you properly configure your read permissions, did you know someone might still have the ability to write to your bucket? Ya, really. Security Week has the details.

Be secure out there …

Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was exposed this month after a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee stored internal documents on a publicly accessible Amazon server.

Enough said.

You can find more detail at Gizmodo.

Be secure out there!

— PF

I’m sure this will anger a few investors: the Dow Jones leaked names, addresses, account information and last four digits of credit card numbers. That last item is especially concerning because “a vulnerability discovered in 2015 allowed anyone in possession of the last 4 digits of a Chase or …