Data stored in the cloud by a Sprint contractor, containing hundreds of thousands of phone bills of US citizens, was left exposed and potentially viewable by anyone for an undetermined period of time, it has emerged.
As TechCrunch reports, the cache of data – kept in an AWS bucket, essentially an area of storage in Amazon’s cloud platform – consisted of over 260,000 documents, most of which were phone bills of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers dating back up to four years in some cases.
