Details of 120 million Americans leaked after partner put data on insecure AWS bucket

Nicholas Fearn
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Personal data of millions of Americans put at risk - months after Equifax breach

The personal details of 120 million Americans were put at risk when a marketing firm that had rights to the data was found to be storing it in an insecure AWS bucket.  According to a security re...

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