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I don’t think one month of free shipping is out of the question for 119,000 FedEx customers around the world whose passports, drivers licenses and other documentation were left in the open for all to see on a publicly accessible Amazon S3 server earlier this week. I mean, even if it’s just a measure of good faith. Otherwise, finding out what brown can do for you sure seems like something worth checking out.
According to Gizmodo, people in Madagascar have nothing to worry about. But for thousands of people in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China and several European countries, it’s not necessarily time to change your name and move to Poland, but the fact is that some of their personal information such as their names, home addresses, phone numbers and zip codes were attached to picture IDs on the unsecured server.
The good news is that researchers at the Kromtech Security Center discovered the “issue,” and the Amazon server is now secure.
The now secure server once belonged to Bongo International LLC, a company that was “purchased by FedEx in 2014 and renamed FedEx Cross-Border International a little over a year later.” That service was discontinued last year, and FedEx issued a statement saying there was no indication that any of the information was used improperly.
