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19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required

  • Pierluigi Paganini--Securityaffairs.com
  • published date: 2026-05-28 07:48:32 UTC

19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There’s a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they hand to companies is locked somewhere safe. Researchers at Mys…

19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required There’s a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they hand to companies is locked somewhere safe. Research… [+5597 chars]