12% of e-commerce shops have backups with private information stored in publicly accessible folders.

 

12% of e-commerce shops have backups with private information stored in publicly accessible folders.  According to a report from security firm Sansec, such files have the necessary information administrator-level access to a site. Private files also include secret API keys and customer data. Hackers usually gather card payment data from these files. They also use this data for social engineering attacks like phishing campaigns. The report analyzed 2,037 e-commerce shops of various sizes.