Summary

A publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server allowed anyone with a web browser to access potentially hundreds of thousands of people’s personal data without needing a password. This included driver’s licenses, passports, and other personal information collected by the Duc App, a money-transfer service owned by Toronto-based Duales. The Canadian fintech company said it resolved the data exposure on Tuesday after TechCrunch alerted its chief executive that one of the company’s cloud storage servers was publicly listing its contents, without a password.

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