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Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

Inmates’ and correctional facilities employees’ data has been sloshed onto the web, unencrypted and unsecured, in yet another instance of a misconfigured cloud storage bucket.

The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered a leaking S3 Bucket with 36,077 files of visible data on an Amazon server, belonging to JailCore.

Read full article by vpnMentor researchers here.

Credits: vpnMentor Research Team