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Major credit card breach sees 5 million Americans' details leak online

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Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a credit card breach that threatens to disrupt Christmas shopping for millions of Americans .

Researchers at Leakd.com uncovered an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) 'S3 bucket' that was used in a phishing scheme, yet the criminals left it open online.

An S3 bucket is a virtual folder for companies to store customer data, but this instance held the credit card details, names, addresses and emails of five million people who fell victim to a fake companies fake promotions.

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