Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes Of Internal Data

Microsoft suffered a major data breach due to a mistake by its AI researchers who posted open source code and models of image recognition technology on GitHub.

All this happened during the publication of an open data repository for training on GitHub. This is reported by cloud security startup Wiz.

Researchers at Wiz discovered that the storage URL on Azure was configured to provide access to the entire storage, not just public data for AI training.

This resulted in the exposure of 38 TB of sensitive information, including the personal computer backups of two Microsoft employees and more than 30,000 internal messages in Microsoft Teams.

Wiz employees had already shared the necessary information with Microsoft, and the company revoked the access token two days later.

Security experts say the leak will definitely damage Microsoft’s reputation, putting its intellectual property and privacy at risk. It is clear that the situation has raised concerns among Microsoft users who may be susceptible to phishing or other types of cyber attacks.