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As a junior security researcher, Alex was testing the "digital hygiene" of local businesses. This specific command was designed to find plain-text files ( filetype:txt filetype txt username password -facebook com
files containing lists of usernames and passwords, specifically excluding results from facebook.com For the curious, this knowledge should be used
In 2020, a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket exposed a .txt file containing over 100,000 plaintext passwords for a major IoT device manufacturer. The file was indexed by Google within hours. For the curious