Decathlon Data Drama: When a Cybersecurity Sprint Turns Into a Sitting Duck Scenario

Decathlon Employee Data Leak: A cyber ‘Storage Wars’ episode! Data snagged from a misconfigured AWS bucket is touring the dark web, with Decathlon’s employees playing the victim. It’s like finding a treasure chest, only here the loot is personal information, a phisher’s dream! Remember, always…

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That's right, folks! The internet version of a treasure chest, aka Decathlon's employee data, is now up for grabs on the dark web. Taken from a misconfigured Amazon Web Services bucket in 2021, the data is now making a grand, albeit unwelcome, reappearance two years later. This is like an episode of "Storage Wars" where a forgotten box suddenly yields valuable loot, but in this case, the loot is sensitive information suitable for phishing campaigns and identity theft. Decathlon, a French sporting goods retailer, is left looking more like a sitting duck than a sprinter in this cybersecurity race.

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