Over 2.3 billion files — including sensitive data like payroll information, credit card details, medical data and patents for intellectual property — are exposed publicly online, putting both people and organisations at risk of data theft, cyber crime, espionage and other malicious activities.
Analysis by researchers at cybersecurity company Digital Shadows found the highly sensitive information stored alongside other data in publicly exposed or misconfigured online storage and cloud services, including SMB file shares, rsync servers, and Amazon S3 buckets.
