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The S3 bucket was not public.

The hacker got ephemeral keys by remotely exploiting the WAF. The WAF had no reason to have privileges to read from S3, that was a mistake.

I’m unclear if data in bucket was encrypted at rest but I guess if you get keys to read it’s a moot point.




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