What do Brit biz consultants and X-rated cam stars have in common? Wide open... AWS S3 buckets on public internet

What do Brit biz consultants and X-rated cam stars have in common? Wide open... AWS S3 buckets on public internet

Exposed: Intimate... personal details belonging to thousands of folks


A pair of misconfigured cloud-hosted file silos have left thousands of peoples' sensitive info sitting on the open internet.


Despite attempts by Amazon to encourage its customers to be more careful, there are plenty of IT administrators and developers who are still not getting it. The latest demonstration of this comes from eggheads at VPNmentor, who this week said they found two open AWS S3 buckets, one belonging to a UK consulting firm and another run by an adult webcam host.


The first leaky system was a poorly configured AWS S3 storage bucket linked to UK consulting firm CHS. It included passport scans, tax documents, background check paperwork, criminal records, and expense and benefit forms detailing several thousand business consultants working ..

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