PrivacyHigh
Reported Accidental Exposure of 38TB of Data by Microsoft's AI Research Team
- Occurred
- Jun 22, 2023
- Published
- Sep 18, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Microsoft's AI research team reportedly accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data while publishing open-source training material on GitHub. The exposure allegedly included secrets, private keys, passwords, and internal Microsoft Teams messages. The team reportedly utilized Azure's Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens for sharing, which were purportedly misconfigured, leading to the wide exposure of data.
Developers
- Microsoft's AI Research Division
Deployers
- Microsoft
Harmed parties
- Microsoft employees
- Microsoft
- Privacy
- Third parties whose confidential data was exposed
Tags
- Data exposure
- Security vulnerability
- AI research
- GitHub
- Microsoft Azure
- SAS tokens
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Massive data exposure of 38TB including secrets and private keys constitutes a significant privacy breach and security incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8