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Doxed by Microsoft’s Docs.com: Users unwittingly shared sensitive docs publicly

  • March 27, 2017
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Thousands of docs with sensitive data still reachable from search engines, including health data.

 
                        


 
Sean Gallagher - 3/27/2017
 
On March 25, security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered something very unfortunate on Docs.com, Microsoft's free document-sharing site tied to the company's Office 365 service: its homepage had a search bar. That in itself would not have been a problem if Office 2016 and Office 365 users were aware that the documents they were posting were being shared publicly.
 
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