French marketing firm publicly exposes sensitive data of over 12,000 clients
Prominent French marketing firm Octoly accidentally publicly exposed an Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket containing sensitive information about the company’s IT operations as well as the firm’s thousands of clients, according to a report from the cybersecurity firm UpGuard. Octoly, which just got a $10 million investment round, is a marketing firm that connects companies and influencers for native advertising opportunities in the popular and lucrative worlds of beauty and video game blogging. The firm works with Sephora, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Blizzard Entertainment as well as popular “influencers” on social media — i.e. people with a large following. Over 12,000 Octoly clients had sensitive data exposed as a result of a misconfigured AWS account including real names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates and hashed user passwords for the individual influencers. On the brand side, Octoly’s analytics for each specific brand were publicly exposed as well. “Octoly’s potential business […]
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