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Human Error in Customer Data Theft

All types of retail outlets could fall prey to data leaks, and not all breaches come from bad intent. For example, CVS Health data could be a gold mine because of the mix of health, financial and insurance records. However, the drugstore chain’s recent breach of more than 1 billion records appears to be caused by human error. The records, according to ThreatPost, “were left in the database of a third-party, unnamed vendor – exposed, unprotected, online,” likely because of a cloud misconfiguration that left the data vulnerable.