{"id":98983,"date":"2019-11-25T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mystery-blurs-dump-of-over-1-billion-peoples-personal-data"},"modified":"2019-11-25T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:02:53","slug":"mystery-blurs-dump-of-over-1-billion-peoples-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mystery-blurs-dump-of-over-1-billion-peoples-personal-data","title":{"rendered":"Mystery blurs dump of over 1 billion people\u2019s personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-blurs-dump-of-over-1-billion-peoples-personal-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two security sleuths last month discovered an enormous amount of data that was left exposed on a server. Data found on the server belonged to around 1.2 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Kartikay Mehrotra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-11-22\/a-billion-people-s-data-left-unprotected-on-google-cloud-server\">wrote<\/a> about it on Friday for Bloomberg, in a story, along with one from <i>Wired<\/i>, that was frequently quoted over the weekend. The data was left unprotected on a Google Cloud server.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI were contacted and the server was shut down. Not trivial. <i>Wired<\/i> referred to the situation as a \u201cjumbo\u201d data leak. <i>Wired<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/billion-records-exposed-online\/\">said<\/a> the information was sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two security sleuths last month discovered an enormous amount of data that was left exposed on a server. Data found on the server belonged to around 1.2 billion people. Kartikay Mehrotra wrote about it on Friday for Bloomberg, in a story, along with one from Wired, that was frequently quoted over the weekend. The data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}