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Hapless AWS engineer spilled passwords, keys, confidential internal training info, customer messages on public GitHub

Claptrap314 Silver badge

You need a better story

The simplest story is that someone put their home directory into git. Either to facilitate a migration between computers, or to facilitate data access.

I've only heard about such things from techies. I really, really doubt marketers would have the wherewith to do such a thing.

So--someone puts their homedir into git, then realizes that they need to push the data somewhere so that they can grab it from outside the company.

Whoops. Github repos are public by default.

So yes, no customer data impact. Limited Amazon corporate data leak. Significant Amazon data leak relative to the individual. Huge personal data leak for the individual.

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