French cybersecurity outfit HTTPCS has revealed that 1 in 50 of all Amazon S3 buckets have not been write-protected, opening opportunities for malicious attackers to corrupt or wipe data. Last year, tens of thousands of unprotected MongoDB databases suffered precisely that fate, hitting small businesses, hospitals, and educational institutions hard. Now is not the time to dilly-dally. If you havent already properly secured the Amazon Web Services S3 servers storing your sensitive data in the cloud then your business has no time to lose.”]
Source: https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/amazon-buckets-writable-data-disaster