AWS S3 Bucket – TheCyberThrone

Abandoned S3 Bucket Hijacked to distribute malicious payloads

An unidentified attacker recently noticed the sudden abandonment of a once-active AWS S3 bucket and recognizing an opportunity, seized it to launch malicious payloads. An NPM package named bignum has…

PravinKarthik June 17, 2023

McGraw Hill Misconfigured AWS Bucket Leaks

A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing a massive trove of data belonging to a USA-based education publishing firm, McGraw Hill, found leaking the data. McGraw Hill is among the top…

PravinKarthik December 20, 2022

AWS Unsecured Bucket Leaks 3TB Data

An unsecured server has exposed sensitive data belonging to airport employees across Colombia and Peru. The server belonging to Securitas was left unsecured, resulting in the exposure of 3TB in…

PravinKarthik January 31, 2022

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AWS S3 Bucket Misconfiguration Leaks Ghanaian PII

Authorities in Ghana are investigating an apparent data breach that may have exposed PII of hundreds of thousands of citizens of the west African country. Researchers discovered bulk of unencrypted…

PravinKarthik January 6, 2022

SEGA Europe’s Misconfigured AWS Bucket might leaked data

Sega Europe, found to be exposing data via a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. The exposed bucket contained multiple sets of AWS keys which could have been used to access many…

PravinKarthik January 5, 2022

Data Leak At D.W Morgan GB’s of Data Exposed

An Amazon S3 bucket owned by logistics giant D.W. Morgan that was left unsecured online that contained more than 100 GB of sensitive data relating to shipments and the company’s…

PravinKarthik December 28, 2021