123 million American households information leaked online
According to foreign media reports, UpGuard, a California-based cybersecurity company, said the inclusion of Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud storage, which includes Alteryx- sensitive data from data analytics companies, resulted in online leaks of details of more than (123 GB) more than 36 million U.S. homes, Almost every race in the United States contains ethnic and ethnic information. Although the spreadsheet for these data uses anonymous identifiers, the information in the other billions of fields is very detailed, such as home addresses, contact information, mortgage status, financial status, and very specific buying behavior analysis.
According to UpGuard, its cyber-risk team uncovered information leaks in Alteryx hosted S3 cloud buckets in October, including Alteryx, a data analytics firm, Experian, the consumer credit reporting agency, and the U.S. population Census data set. And these complete Experian’s ConsumerView marketing databases and the 2010 US Census’s full dataset are all available.
Currently, Alteryx has conducted a survey and said that although the leaked document contains third-party content providers marketing data, they promised that the leaked cloud database is now blocked on the Internet and the information in the file will not be used by any consumer The risk of identity theft.
Source: ZDNet
