Description: Microsoft's AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data while publishing open-source training material on GitHub. The exposure included secrets, private keys, passwords, and internal Microsoft Teams messages. The team utilized Azure's Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens for sharing, which were misconfigured, leading to the wide exposure of data.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Microsoft's AI Research Division developed an AI system deployed by Microsoft, which harmed Microsoft , Microsoft employees and Third parties relying on the confidentiality of the exposed data.
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Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- Privacy & Security
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
Human
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Unintentional
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Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations.
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The backup includes …
Variants
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