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Public Relations: How a Marketing & PR Platform Exposed Thousands of Users

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Dissent

The UpGuard research team reports:

The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a data collection originating from iPR Software (risk score: 683) containing details of 477,000 media contacts, business entity account information, over 35,000 user password hashes, assorted documents, and administrative system credentials has been secured. The Amazon S3 storage bucket contained a large collection of files, some of which were configured for public access, totalling over a terabyte in size. In addition to the database files, the storage bucket contained documentation from iPR developers, documents which appear to be marketing materials for client companies, and credentials for iPR accounts on Google, Twitter, and a MongoDB hosting provider.

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