38 Million Records Exposed from Microsoft Power Apps

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In an unexpected data leak, more than 38 million records from 47 organizations using Microsoft’s gateway platform Power Apps were accidentally published online, according to The Hacker News. 

The unfortunate incident resulted in the leakage of sensitive information on servers of corporations such as Microsoft, J.B. Hunt, and American Airlines along with government agencies from Indiana, Maryland, and New York City.

Power Apps are mostly used for developing custom low-code applications for mobile devices as well as websites. The programs created by Microoft have a number of advantages, such as APIs that allow other applications to access data, templates as well as managing and collecting information and storage.

Key information that went missing: 

The misconfiguration of a port could lead to making the stored data public and this is what happened h…

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