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Personal details of 80 million US households exposed on unsecured Microsoft cloud server

Tuesday April 30, 2019. 01:34 PM , from BetaNews
Security researchers have discovered an unprotected database stored on a Microsoft cloud server. The 24GB database includes personal information about 80 million households across the US. The researchers from vpnMentor were working on a web mapping project when they made the discovery. They say that as the database they found left out in the open relates to American households which include multiple residents, the data breach could potentially affect hundreds of millions of people. The discovery was made by 'hacktivists' Noam Rotem and Ran Locar. The unprotected database they stumbled across could impact as many as 65 percent of US… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2019/04/30/80-million-us-households-exposed-cloud-database/
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