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Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people’s identity documents

The gift card store secured the public cloud storage server containing customer ID documents, which was not protected with a password.

Gastro would not say how long the data was exposed to the internet, nor would the company commit to notifying affected individuals whose information was left public. According to JayeLTee, the exposed data — hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud — contained over 600,000 front and back images of identity documents and selfie photos of around 200,000 customers. In a blog post, JayeLTee said it was not clear exactly how many individuals were affected by the security lapse at Roomster, and its CEO John Shriber did not return TechCrunch’s email requesting comment.

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