UK car insurance company AA is being heavily criticized over its handling of a data breach that exposed customer email addresses and partial credit card number in April.
A server misconfiguration is the root cause for the exposure of data from the AA’s online shop. The issue exposed backup files containing orders for maps, motoring accessories and other products.
The incident was publicly disclosed last week when security experts Troy Hunt criticized the way AA has downplayed a massive data breach that exposed about 13GB of DB backups.
