FedEx left hundreds of thousands of personal records exposed on unsecured S3 server
The information included passport scans, drivers' licenses and medical insurance cards

A scanned Canadian passport found on the server
119,000 personal documents have been exposed through an unsecured AWS S3 server administered by FedEx, in a data breach that would have GDPR overseers rubbing their hands had it happened just three months...
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