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The Indian government has fixed a cloud security issue that leaked personal data online for years.

The leak was due to a misconfigured database provided by the Indian governments cloud service, S3WaaS.

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Hackers were using the information to mountidentity theftscams and phishing attacks.

Misconfigured databases continue to be one of the biggest causes of data spills, nowadays.

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