{"id":248951,"date":"2018-02-16T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=248951"},"modified":"2018-02-16T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T07:00:07","slug":"fedex-customer-records-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248951-fedex-customer-records-exposed.html","title":{"rendered":"FedEx customer records exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kromtech security researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/mackeepersecurity.com\/post\/fedex-customer-records-exposed\"><strong>have discovered<\/strong><\/a> an Amazon S3 bucket, set for public access, with sensitive information of thousands of FedEx customers.<\/p>\n<p>The bucket contained 119,000 scanned documents of US and international citizens, including passports, driving licences, and security IDs.<\/p>\n<p>IDs were accompanied by scanned &#8220;Applications for Delivery of Mail Through Agent&#8221; forms, which contained names, home addresses, phone numbers, and postal codes.<\/p>\n<p>Kromtech concluded that the data belonged to Bongo International, which was bought by FedEx in 2014 and\u00a0relaunched as FedEx Cross-Border International.<\/p>\n<p>The FedEx Cross-Border service was then shut down in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Kromtech said that anyone who used Bongo International&#8217;s services between 2009 and 2012 is at risk of having their documents available online.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248913-this-single-character-message-can-crash-whatsapp-on-iphones.html\"><strong>This single-character message can crash WhatsApp on iPhones<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers have found thousands of scanned documents of US and international citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":229919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23976],"class_list":["post-248951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-fedex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249005,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248951\/revisions\/249005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}