Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data, including personal backups, passwords, and internal messages, while publishing open-source training data on GitHub. The exposure occurred due to a misconfigured URL that allowed full control instead of read-only permissions. Cloud security startup Wiz discovered the issue and alerted Microsoft, which fixed it.
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Microsoft accidentally exposed internal sensitive data, fixes mistake
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data, including personal backups, passwords, and internal messages, while publishing open-source training data on GitHub. The exposure occurred due to a misconfigured URL that allowed full control instead of read-only permissions. Cloud security startup Wiz discovered the issue and alerted Microsoft, which fixed it.
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