DigitalOcean suffers data breach after leaving internal document online

DigitalOcean suffers data breach after leaving internal document online

DigitalOcean has millions of customers worldwide.


A couple of days ago it was reported that GoDaddy suffered a data breach after hackers accessed the company’s SSH accounts. Now, the world’s leading web hosting platform DigitalOcean became a victim of data breach not because of a security lapse.


Apparently, the company left exposed a sensitive internal document online. Resultantly, personal details of some of the company’s customers may have been exposed to unauthorized third parties.


The web hosting giant has confirmed the news of data breach and has notified customers about the incident via email which reveals important details of the incident.


See: Sensitive user data found in Tesla car parts sold on eBay


The email explains that the data breach is a result of unintentional negligence from the company as an internal document containing personally identifiable information of some customers was left accessible on the internet without password protection.

A full preview of the email sent by DigitalOcean:



Email sent by DigitalOcean



The document included details like the customers’ DigitalOcean account names and linked email addresses, and account data statistics like bandwidth usage, Droplet count, payments made during 2018, and support or sales communication records.


What’s even more concerning is the fact that this document has been accessed 15 times at least before it was taken offline. 

In its official statement regarding the inciden ..

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