{"id":518269,"date":"2025-04-11T23:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springworks.in\/blog\/?p=518269"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:08:33","slug":"transparency-update-s3-bucket-misconfiguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.springworks.in\/transparency-update-s3-bucket-misconfiguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency Update: S3 Bucket Misconfiguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, we were alerted to a misconfiguration in one of our sparingly used Amazon S3 buckets that inadvertently became publicly accessible. This bucket contained limited records related to our SVD service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Upon being notified, we acted immediately to shut down public access to the bucket and verified that the access settings were corrected. 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