Configuration data for GoDaddy servers could be used as a reconnaissance tool for malicious actors to uncover ripe targets.

The vulnerability also exposed login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database, Upguard says.

Octoly’s incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository.

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.

Thousands of resumes and job applications from U.S. military veterans, law enforcement, and others were leaked by a recruiting vendor in an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket.

Data belonging to 14 million Verizon customers was exposed by a partner, which misconfigured a repository storing the personal information it had access to.

Almost 200 million voter profiles culled by Republican data broker Deep Root Analytics were left exposed on an Amazon S3 server.