Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Big Cache of Data

Microsoft Corp.’s AI research team accidentally exposed a large cache of private data on the software development platform GitHub, according to new research from a cybersecurity firm.

A team at the cloud security company Wiz found the exposure of cloud-hosted data on the AI training platform via a misconfigured link. The data was leaked by Microsoft’s research team while publishing open-source training data on GitHub, according to Wiz.

Users of the repository were urged to download AI models from an cloud storage URL. But it was misconfigured to grant permissions on the entire storage account, and it also granted ...