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Ladders, SkyMed Leak Employment, Medical Data for Millions

Cloud storage misconfigured cloud databases inadvertently leaked personal information of millions exposed on the web. The data included names, email addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers. Cloud storage issues continue to plague the data-privacy space, as evidenced by the new discovery of employment and health information for millions exposed. Another unsecured Elasticsearch database belonging to Florida-based SkyMed was found by Jeremiah Fowler, senior researcher at Security Discovery. There was evidence of ransomware inside the database, and this could potentially be evidence of a far bigger exposure, Fowler said.

Source: https://threatpost.com/ladders-skymed-data-leak/144307/

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