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title: FedEx S3 Bucket Leak Includes Passport Scans
description: "M&A increases cybersecurity risks. This time, AWS S3 bucket owned by FedEx leaked something identity thieves would love: passport scans. And more."
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# [FedEx S3 Bucket Leak Includes Passport Scans](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/fedex-data-leak)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Fri | Feb 16, 2018 | 4:12 PM Z

I have interviewed too many CISOs to count-who have said that mergers and acquisitions increase security risks to the business.

This is one of those cases, where a company called Bongo, which was acquired by FedEx, left one of its AWS S3 buckets exposed. For years.

And this one was loaded with 119,000 documents, including passport scans:

There were also shipping forms with names and adresses and other identifying information.

Researchers at Kromtech made [the discovery](https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/fedex-customer-records-exposed). And they say the AWS bucket has now been secured.

At the least, this is embarassing for FedEx. Hopefully no one else found this information.

It is also a reminder to check the S3 bucket settings when your organization goes through its next round of M&A.

[View full post](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/fedex-data-leak)

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