Security News > 2017 > July > Dow Jones customer data exposed due to cloud misconfiguration (Help Net Security)
2017-07-18 16:58
US-based publishing and financial information firm Dow Jones & Company is the latest casualty of a cloud database misconfiguration error. In late May, UpGuard’s Chris Vickery discovered an Amazon S3 cloud-based data repository accessible to AWS authenticated users under the subdomain “dj-skynet.” Further analysis tied the bucket to Dow Jones. “The exposed data repository (…) had been configured via permission settings to allow any AWS ‘Authenticated Users’ to download the data via the repository’s URL. … More →
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