Exploit: Misconfiguration
American Marriage Ministries (AMM): Non-Profit
Risk to Business: 2.617 = Moderate
American Marriage Ministries (AMM), a Seattle-based non-denominational religious organization that ordains wedding officiants, has suffered a data breach. Researchers say they’ve discovered 630 GB of data on about 185,000 officiants and roughly 15,000 married couples as well as their wedding guests exposed in an unsecured Amazon Web Services bucket. The data trove contained Ministers’ program application forms, over 500,000 ordination certificates and minister identification documents, and marriage licenses that contain details about newly wedded couples and more was included in the bucket. The incident was reported to FBI IC3.
Individual Impact:
No information about consumer/employee PII, PHI or financial data exposure was available at press time.
How It Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: SMBs that handle or store large amounts of data have been high on cybercriminal shopping lists, particularly in recent months.
Risk Levels:
1 - 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 - 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 - 3 = Moderate Risk
*The risk score is calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
