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Accenture left four servers of sensitive data completely unprotected
UpGuard has yet again uncovered a trove of corporate data left unprotected, this time from major consulting and management firm Accenture. The data -- contained on four cloud-based storage servers -- were discovered by UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research Chris Vickery in mid-September and weren't protected by a password. Anyone with the servers' web addresses could download the stored information, which included decryption keys, passwords and customer info. And Accenture's client list includes a number of large companies. On its website, Accenture says its clients "span the full range of industries around the world and include 94 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500."
Verizon partner exposes 14 million customer records
If you've had to call Verizon customer service recently, you might want to keep a close eye on your data. ZDNet has learned that an employee at a carrier partner, Nice Systems, exposed 14 million residential customer records from the past 6 months on an unguarded Amazon S3 server. As long as you could guess the web address (which reportedly wasn't that hard), you had free rein to download whichever log files you wanted. Each record included a name, cellphone number and account PIN, and only some of it was masked. Thieves would not only have personal info they could abuse elsewhere (such as social accounts that use a phone number for authentication) -- they could impersonate you if they called Verizon later.
