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Craig Hale

This company made a significant Google Drive security error that could put a million users at risk

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Japanese game developer Ateam has admitted that a simple misconfiguration of its Google Drive cloud storage service had been putting the personal information of users at risk for more than half a decade.

“On November 21, 2023, we discovered that personal information in files located on the cloud service Google Drive used by our group could possibly be viewed… [by] anyone who knew the exact URL link to access the files," the company said in a statement.

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