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Microsoft’s AI researchers accidentally leaked 38,000 GB of data, including product keys, passwords, emails

Researchers at Microsoft inadvertently exposed 38 terabytes of personal data. The incident occurred when the AI team was uploading training data to enable other researchers to train AI models for image recognition. Inadvertently, this exposure included sensitive information such as “secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages,” as initially detected by the cloud security platform Wiz. In Microsoft’s official report addressing the breach, they emphasized that no customer data was compromised, and no other internal services were put in jeopardy due to this incident. They also reassured that there was no specific action required from their customers.