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REAL STORY A cloud dashboard showing 'S3 Bucket: Public Access: ENABLED' highlighted in red. Next to it, a news headline: '3 billion records exposed.' Corporate office, dark mood.

A cloud dashboard showing 'S3 Bucket: Public Access: ENABLED' highlighted in red. Next to it, a news headline: '3 billion records exposed.' Corporate office, dark mood.

One checkbox exposed 3 billion records.

Amazon S3 storage buckets have a setting: Public Access. The default used to be 'enabled.' That means anyone on the internet could read the files. Companies uploaded customer data, medical records, and financial documents -- and never checked that one setting.