Dow Jones index – of customers, not prices – leaks from AWS repo

Dow Jones has emulated Verizon by saving various internal databases (including Wall Street Journal subscribers) in the cloud without properly securing it. The breach was turned up by UpGuard's Chris Vickery and is detailed in this post. It's an all-too-familiar, straightforward breach: someone left a cloud repository …

[Anonymous Coward]

"wasn't serious enough to warrant a customer announcement,"

...."only enough data to mount a phishing campaign... or help identity theft"....

Charming! GDPR can't get here soon enough!

[Pen-y-gors]

less salubrious characters?

Any chance of a leak of the records of certain family members of D Cameron and T May? And probably a whole slew of other cabinet ministers, ex-ministers, dodgy friends etc.

[handleoclast]

Every time it rains,

It rains, data from Amazon.

[Down not across]

Nice

Dow Jones has emulated Verizon by saving various internal databases (including Wall Street Journal subscribers) in the cloud without properly securing it.

<pedant>

Wasn't it Nice, rather than Verizon, that left that bucket unsecured.

</pedant>

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't call it breach.

It's not a breach when access permissions are set incorrectly. Just like it's not a break-in when the front door of the house is left wide open.