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Sat, July 26, 2025

Viacom Cloud Leak Exposed Master Controls and Keys

🔒 UpGuard researchers discovered on August 30, 2017 a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket named “mcs-puppet” containing seventy-two .tgz backup archives that included Puppet manifests, configuration files, keys, and credentials tied to Viacom. The repository exposed AWS access and secret keys, GPG decryption keys, and scripts referencing services such as Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, and New Relic. UpGuard notified Viacom on August 31, and the exposure was secured within hours. The incident demonstrates how cloud misconfigurations can reveal master provisioning controls and enable widespread infrastructure compromise.

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Sat, July 26, 2025

Viacom Cloud Leak Exposes AWS Keys and Puppet Data

🔒 An UpGuard researcher discovered a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket exposing Viacom’s internal provisioning and cloud credentials. The archive—found under the subdomain "mcs-puppet"—contained seventy-two incremental .tgz backups with Puppet manifests, configuration files, GPG decryption keys and the AWS access key and secret. Viacom was notified on August 31, 2017 and the exposed buckets were secured within hours, preventing active compromise.

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