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Fox configuration error leads to 13 million users data becoming public.
A configuration error exposed millions of internal records traced back to Fox News, including personally identifiable information on employees, according to researchers.
"A large number of incidents and breaches can be traced back not to aggressive attacks, but rather to simple technical or human error," said Erfan Shadabi, cybersecurity expert with data security specialists at comforte AG. "In this incident, a configuration error exposed millions of internal records, including PIIs on employees."
This information was made available through a configuration error that led to Fowler and the rest of the Website Planet team discovering a 58GB data set with PII being publicly viewable, including a listing of 65,000 celebrities, cast and production crew members and their internal FOX ID reference numbers.
"These measures guard the data itself instead of the environment around it by replacing sensitive information with representational and innocuous tokens. This data-centric protection travels with the data, so even if data is exposed due to technical or human error, it will be worthless, thereby averting the worst repercussions."
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