Just short of eight million records of UK shoppers buying habits have been found on an unsecured MongoDB database on an Amazon AWS server. The security blunder is down to another cloud misconfiguration. The database contained sales records relating to Amazon UK and eBay, with Shopify, PayPal, Stripe plus some smaller marketplaces and payment companies.
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