Incident 571: Accidental Exposure of 38TB of Data by Microsoft's AI Research Team

Description: Microsoft's AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data while publishing open-source training material on GitHub. The exposure included secrets, private keys, passwords, and internal Microsoft Teams messages. The team utilized Azure's Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens for sharing, which were misconfigured, leading to the wide exposure of data.

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Alleged: Microsoft's AI Research Division developed an AI system deployed by Microsoft, which harmed Microsoft , Microsoft employees and Third parties relying on the confidentiality of the exposed data.

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571

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2023-06-22

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Daniel Atherton

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38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

wiz.io

wiz.io · 2023

Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations.
The backup includes …

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