AWS leak exposes passwords, private keys on GitHub

Source:-searchsecurity.techtarget.com UpGuard discovered a public GitHub repository that contained sensitive AWS customer data, including passwords, authentication tokens and private encryption keys. An Amazon Web Services engineer uploaded sensitive data to a public GitHub repository that included customer credentials and private encryption keys. Cybersecurity vendor UpGuard earlier this month found the exposed GitHub repository within 30 minutes of its creation. UpGuard analysts discovered the AWS leak, which was slightly less than 1 GB and contained log files and resource templates that

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