Fujitsu made the news earlier this year after accidentally exposing AWS keys, plaintext passwords, and client data. The incident caused serious concern when it became clear that the exposed data had been floating about the internet for almost 12 months.
This type of unintentional lapse in data control is more common than you might think. Larger organizations, in particular, tend to have more shadow data than they would like to admit to, and can often find it harder to keep tabs on all the places where their data is stored, be that a stray code repository or some cloud storage being used to transfer data between non-corporate systems.
