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Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data (mashable.com)
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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It seems this isn't about customer data:

The exposed data included full backups of two employees' computers. These backups contained sensitive personal data, including passwords to Microsoft services, secret keys, and more than 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages from more than 350 Microsoft employees.

[–] ChapolinColoradoNZ@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Some of that data could be from (or for) customer use, like the service passwords.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who TF is keeping secret keys on their dev machine, that shit is toxic. Not to mention passwords

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 58 points 1 year ago

They probably mean like private ssh keys and developer credentials, not production keys. Microsoft does not give signing keys to developers, code releases have to get signed through the build servers.

[–] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's the other 37.9TB?

[–] crypticthree@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The lax security is still worrying when they have so much data in general

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

The cloud is just somebody else's computer. You give up some control and get some convenience. I'm paranoid about their cloud services and cloud services in general.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

On a local pc no less. They don't use password repos at Microsoft?