AI firm with ties to U.S. government exposes of billions of documents in breach

New research from data security firm UpGuard shows that a U.S. government AI contractor’s massive database of sensitive documents was exposed on the Internet until the end of last month. In a post on its blog, UpGuard breaks down how Veritone AI exposed 550GB of internal and client data including audio, video and biometric image media, employee PII, police body camera footage, FOIA requests and related documents, employee credentials, system logs with authorization tokens, and more.

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