Over 1TB Private Data Belonging to Ford, TD Bank etc Left for Public View on AWS
The biggest joke here is that the company Attunity is an information management company that exist to help companies deal with the cloud without messing anything up. Yest they keep very important documents in plain text on cloud for anyone on the planet to access.
Attunity is a data custodian that helps integrate clients’ information stored in various places so it can be analyzed easily. The company, based in Kfar Saba, Israel, is an “Advanced Technology Partner” of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division. Yet Attunity didn’t configure its cloud storage so it was locked to the public and left all of the data visible in plain text, Upguard said. The failure is similar to an incident Bloomberg News reported in April when digital platform Cultura Colectiva openly stored 540 million records on Facebook Inc. users in Amazon’s cloud.
Attunity’s data buckets included files about Ford’s information-technology architecture and details on internal project plans. Documents attributed to TD Bank included invoices, agreements between the companies, and files about the type of technology solution Attunity was configuring for the bank. There was also log-in information for a database Attunity created when it was trying to sign Netflix Inc. as a client in 2015. Netflix downloaded a demo of an Attunity tool that could have helped the streaming company switch databases, but never became a customer, according to a Netflix spokeswoman.
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