A recent report by NordVPN’s NordPass password manager unveiled shocking facts about misconfigured databases. The researchers identified 9,517 unsecured databases with 10 billion records globally. Now, a US-based online marketing company called the View Media exposed almost 39 million user records due to an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.
The database was discovered by the CyberNews research team wherein, sensitive information such as full names, addresses, contact numbers, and zip codes were publicly accessible.
View Media is an online platform that caters to a range of digital marketing and advertising services. Such as email campaigns, display advertising, design, and hosting amongst others.
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What’s worse is that the data was available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) server and could have been easily accessed and downloaded by threat actors.
The research team discovered the bucket on 29th July containing more than 5,000 files which included 700 work documents revolving around targeted and direct mail advertising campaigns saved in PDF format.
Moreover, 59 XLS and VSV files containing almost 39 million US citizen records (38,765,297) were also found, out of which a whopping 23,511,441 were unique entries.
The advertising campaigns were designed ensuing user locations and ZIP codes. Not only this, but the comprehensive drive included target demographics such as full names, home address, emails, contact numbers too.
According to CyberNews’s personal details million citizens leaked database
