Unsecured Database Exposes Data of 80M U.S. Households

### Executive summary Security researchers discovered a 24‑GB unsecured database hosted on a Microsoft cloud server containing personal and household‑level data for roughly 80 million U.S. households (names, addresses, DOBs, income, geolocation and other attributes). The owner of the database is unknown; Microsoft took the server offline after notification. Experts attribute the exposure to cloud misconfiguration and weak security practices, and warn the data represents a significant risk for identity theft, phishing and other cybercrime.