A newly disclosed security incident has compromised the personal information of about 123 million American households, exposing sensitive details ranging from demographics like age and gender, to past retail purchases and specific interests.
The personal information was amassed by Alteryx, a California-based data analytics firm, and uploaded to a publicly available Amazon Web Services cloud-based data repository lacking basic security protections, according to UpGuard, a Silicon Valley security firm that disclosed the incident this week.
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