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Fortune 500 Company Exposes 50M Customer Records via Misconfigured S3

Posted on:January 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM

TLDR: Security researchers discovered a publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket belonging to a Fortune 500 retailer containing sensitive customer data including names, addresses, and partial payment card numbers.

The bucket was exposed for approximately 3 months before being secured. The company has begun notifying affected customers.

Exposed Data: