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February 3, 2020 11:00 am GMT

Hackers keep getting access to your data. Is Amazon to blame?

Hackers keep getting access to your data. Is Amazon to blame?

Each new week seemingly brings with it another disturbing discovery of personal data left unsecured and exposed on the internet. Different companies — spanning industries as varied as pornography, cannabis, and medical records — screwing up in hard-to-parse ways, all with the same casualty: your privacy.

While the scale and severity may vary, a single theme often unites each newsworthy incident: An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing customer, medical, or financial data that's left out for anyone with the proper know-how to pilfer. 

The question as to why this keeps happening is an important one that sadly isn't going away anytime soon.  Read more...

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