Preface: Data breaches continue to be a threat to consumers. Many companies were hacked and likely had information stolen from them since January 2017.

Headline news Jan 2019:  Abine announced that they learned on 13th December 2018 that a file containing information from customers who had registered prior to January 2016 was exposed online.

Who is Abine? Abine is a Boston-based privacy company. Led by consumer protection, privacy, and identity theft experts.

Official findings of data breaches: The file was in a “mis-configured Amazon S3 storage bucket that was being used for data processing.

User Tips: AWS code of law

• You can enable Block Public Access settings only for buckets and AWS accounts. Amazon S3 doesn’t support Block Public Access settings on a per-object basis.
• When you apply Block Public Access settings to an account, the settings apply to all AWS Regions globally. The settings might not take effect in all Regions immediately or simultaneously, but they eventually propagate to all Regions.

Should you have interest to know more details, please refer to official announcement: https://www.abine.com/blog/2018/blur-security-update/