Unsecured cloud-based databases that left sensitive information wide open for anyone to access online have led to an increase of 50% in exposed files this year over 2018. A database of more than 2.7 billion email addresses, 1 billion of which included passwords in plaintext, was exposed this week. Nearly 800,00 online applications for copies of US birth certificates were exposed on an exposed Amazon Web Services S3 storage bucket with no password protection. A UK-based penetration testing firm found the data while working on an AWS S3 project, allowing anybody with the URL to obtain a full list of files.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/data-leak-week-billions-of-sensitive-files-exposed-online