Microsoft Leaks 38TB of Employee Data Through Misconfigured Cloud Storage

Microsoft AI research team leaked 38TB of private data via misconfigured Azure storage in July 2020
Data included employee passwords, secret keys, internal Teams messages from 359 employees
Cloud security firm Wiz discovered the leak in June 2023 and reported it to Microsoft
Microsoft revoked access to the storage account on June 24, 2023 to mitigate the issue
Wiz warns that shared access tokens like the one used here are hard to monitor and pose a security risk

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Microsoft Exposes 38TB of Sensitive Employee Data on Misconfigured Azure Server

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing open-source training data on GitHub, but no customer data was exposed as a result.