Microsoft AI Research Team Accidental Exposure of 38TB Data

Reported Accidental Exposure of 38TB of Data by Microsoft's AI Research Team

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

Severity: MediumAzure Shared Access Signature TokensAzure Storage AccountsAi Model Sharing PipelinesOpen Source Ai Model RepositoriesCompromise of privacy by obtaining

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Reported Accidental Exposure of 38TB of Data by Microsoft's AI Research Team

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