Data breach suffered by Digital Ocean after exposing documents online

World's largest web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider suffers a data breach.

The company left one of its document online which contained sensitive data. This may have lead compromise of various user data. The organization has confirmed the issue by sending a mail to the users, which is attached below:

The email explains that the data breach is a result of unintentional negligence from the company as an internal document containing personally identifiable information of some customers was left accessible on the internet without password protection.

The document included details like the customers’ DigitalOcean account names and linked email addresses, and account data statistics like bandwidth usage, Droplet count, payments made during 2018, and support or sales communication records.

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