Personal credit hacked! Vehicle tracking login credentials leaked! Bits and bytes of data on servers have one caveat-100 percent secure?  There are human errors that contribute to online leaks, and situational training may identify specific errors. Stolen Vehicle Records (SVR) Tracking Company data was left unsecured on an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket.  SVR’s cloud-based servers are collecting real-time data every second of the day.   What is a cloud-based server?  A cloud server is a logically built server, hosted and delivered through a cloud computing platform over internet, exhibiting similar capabilities and functionalities of a remotely controlled typical server from a cloud service provider according to Techopedia.  On September 20, 2017, Kromtech notified SVR of a mis-configuration, resulting in a vulnerable data repository.

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