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Recruiter’s Cloud Snafu Exposes 20,000 CVs and ID Documents Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Tens of thousands of jobseekers have had their personal information exposed by a misconfigured cloud account, according to researchers. A team at Website Planet discovered the AWS S3 bucket left unprotected and unsecured by FastTrack Reflex Recruitment, now TeamBMS. The firm apparently specializes in recruitment for the building management systems sector, for projects including skyscrapers 22 Bishopsgate and The Shard, Wembley Stadium and the Olympic Stadium, Heathro...

Bizongo, the business-to-business platform for The company has Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Swiggy, and Zomato among the clients using its B2B supply chain and vendor management solutions.

Over 320,000 court records that appear to come from the second most populous county in the US have been discovered sitting on a misconfigured online database. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team from Website Planet claimed that the data was all from Cook County, Illinois, which is home to America’s third-largest city, Chicago. “There have been several high-profile data exposures of private companies that affected Cook County residents in the past few years including a large hospital data breach. However, this appears to be the largest breach of Cook County internal records to d...

Court On September 26, 2020, researchers discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing more than 323,277 Cook County court related records containing highly sensitive personal data. Cook County, Illinois, is the second most populous county in the U.S., with a population in excess of 5 million people. The records contained PII such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, and court case numbers, WebsitePlanet together with researcher Jeremiah Fowler, said.  More worryingly, they also contained notes on the status of both the case and the individuals concerned. The case type see...

Tax Relief Biz Exposed Personal Info on 100,000 Clients Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Researchers at Website Planet told Infosecurity exclusively about the privacy snafu, which they discovered on October 13 and notified the firm about the next day. That company was Marriage Tax Refund, a Wolverhampton-based organization whose business model is to recover marriage tax allowance funds for UK clients. According to the research team, the firm had misconfigured its WordPress CMS, leaving a directory listing of PDF documents availab...