You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

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Roundup It's once again time for the El Reg security roundup.


Takedown doesn't quite take down everything


Last week, The Register covered the story of how VPNmentor found and ultimately got a public-facing Amazon-hosted S3 bucket containing financial records of thousands of small businesses removed from view.


In that story, it was reported the misconfigured bucket in question was removed in January after AWS was notified. Shortly after our story was published, an infoec bod, who asked to remain anonymous, told El Reg they could access the files in the leaky bucket weeks after it was supposedly taken down.


After a few days of back and forth, it was concluded that for those weeks between ..

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