Once data is publicly accessible it’s easy to obtain. There are many websites that enable you to search for publicly accessible documents in S3 buckets. Any person in the world, including, of course, attackers, can access and then mine this data – from phone numbers, addresses, and credit card details to internal proprietary information and private medical information. Armed with this information, attackers can then do a number of things with long-standing impacts on the organization to which the data belongs—from mis-use of proprietary information to gain an unfair competitive advantage to credit card fraud to ransoming of customer data. And, of course, organizations also have to worry about potential compliance violations due to misuse of regulated data like PHI, PII or credit card information.