Pravin Rasiah

BACKGROUND: ‘Reindeer’, a New York-based digital media advertising and marketing company that is now out of business, has left an Amazon S3 bucket exposed to public access resulting in the irreversible leak of 50,000 files that account to a total of 32 GB of size. The exposure affects roughly 306,000 people, who were customers of various Reindeer clients such as the ‘Patrón Tequila’ alcoholic beverage brand and the ‘Jack Wills’ UK clothing brand.

BACKGROUND: Researchers analyzing Android apps have discovered serious cloud misconfigurations leading to the potential exposure of data belonging to over 100 million users.

An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered” security flaw that exposes customers’ account data.