38TB of Microsoft data ‘accidentally exposed’ by AI researchers on company’s GitHub page: Report

Reports suggest that Microsoft researchers accidentally leaked 38TB of confidential information onto the company’s GitHub page where it could be downloaded by potentially everyone. The incident reportedly happened in June 2023.

According to a report in Digital Trends, the data trove included backups of two former employees’ workstations, including keys, passwords, and more than 30,000 private team messages.

The report in Digital Trends further stated that the leak was accidentally included in a tranche of open-source training data and visitors were encouraged to download it, which would mean that it could fall into the wrong hands again and again.