It’s getting to the point where if you blink, you might miss another story about the accidental exposure of sensitive data stored in a public cloud instance. Case in point: cybersecurity firm UpGuard recently found 36GB of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and consumer credit reporting agency Experian. The data, which was stored by data analytics firm Alteryx, was inadvertently exposed on a Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket. Experian has called the incident — which affects 123 million U.S. households — “an Alteryx issue,” even as the credit monitoring firm’s customers were directly impacted. UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery told CyberScoop that regardless of what organization is storing data, third-party vendor risk should be a point of concern for all involved. “Third-party vendor risk is a problem for both parties,” Vickery said. “Look at it this way: If you store your valuables in a bank vault, and the bank forgets to […]
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