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Police injury reports, drug tests, detailed doctor visit notes, social security numbers—all were
inexplicably unveiled on a public subdomain of
Amazon Web Services. Welcome to the next big data breach horrorshow. Instead of hackers, it’s old-fashioned neglect from companies managing data that exposed your most sensitive information.
Texas tech enthusiast Chris Vickery had heard
strange data dumps could turn up on Amazon’s cloud computing platform, so he started combing through. In early September, he found an enormous data breach that left the private medical information of millions of Americans sitting in the open online.
“It just kind of fell into my lap,” he told Gizmodo.
