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Amazon AWS error exposes info on 31,000 GoDaddy servers

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Dissent

Mallory Locklear reports:

Data leaks are par for the course these days, and the latest company to be involved in one is GoDaddy. The company, which says it’s the world’s top domain name registrar with over 18 million customers, is the subject of a new report from cybersecurity firm UpGuard that was shared exclusively with Engadget. In June, cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered files containing detailed server information stored in an unsecured S3 bucket — a cloud storage service from Amazon Web Services. A look into the files revealed multiple versions of data for over 31,000 GoDaddy systems.

Read more on Engadget.

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