A mistake in the cloud has exposed a vast trove of data belonging to one of the world\u2019s largest professional-services firms. According to multiple independent cyber-security researchers, a 4-terabyte SQL Server backup file belonging to Ernst & Young (EY) was publicly accessible on the internet via Microsoft Azure Storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While no hack appears to have been involved, the incident underscores how even elite organizations are vulnerable to basic mis-configurations in the era of rapid cloud deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n(7) Ernst & Young (EY) Exposes 4TB Database Online – What Went Wrong? | LinkedIn<\/a>: Ernst & Young (EY) Exposes 4TB Database Online – What Went Wrong?<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A mistake in the cloud has exposed a vast trove of data belonging to one of the world\u2019s largest professional-services firms. According to multiple independent cyber-security researchers, a 4-terabyte SQL Server backup file belonging to Ernst & Young (EY) was publicly accessible on the internet via Microsoft Azure Storage. While…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datalek","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}