Box links are leaking sensitive data and documents from more than 90 companies, warn security specialists

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Technology prototypes and design files, bank account numbers and passwords among the data inadvertently publicly shared over Box

More than 90 major companies are exposing sensitive data via the sharing of public links to documents stored on their Box enterprise storage accounts. That's the warning of security specialists ...

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