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Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.
Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII....
I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts "randomly" after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.
So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.
That is fucking amazing.
Please tell me this 'cybersecurity manager' was... fired, or drawn and quartered, or something.
Probably got a promotion.