A marketing firm exposed hashed passwords and public relations documents of thousands of customers via a leaky Amazon S3 database. The database contained 477,000 clients media contacts, business entity account information, 35,000 hashed user passwords, documents and administrative system credentials. Clients exposed included California Courts, CenturyLink, Nasdaq, Xerox and Mercury Public Affairs. It s unclear if the database was accessed by anyone else. With companies storing so much sensitive information, keeping data secure is paramount, researchers stressed.
Source: https://threatpost.com/ge-dunkin-forever21-internal-doc-leak/150920/