2 Minute Drill: EY Data Leak, India's Cybercrime Villages, and AI Browser Risks with Drex DeFord
Episode 1024th November 2025 • UnHack with Drex DeFord • This Week Health
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Global consulting Giant, Ernst and Young accidentally exposed four terabytes of client data on an open SQL database. The exposed records included internal spreadsheets and emails and client project files, some linked to financial services and healthcare accounts. The data sat exposed for weeks before a researcher spotted it and reported it.

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How are you preventing it from happening to your organization in the future? There's a really great story in The Guardian that takes us inside of India's emerging cyber crime villages, where whole communities have shifted from agriculture to online fraud. Uh, so there are places in India where local economies now revolve around phish and investment scams and romance fraud.

Young workers earn more money running phone banks and fake call centers than they ever did harvesting rice and law enforcement crackdowns. They've tried, but it's been sporadic and the sheer scale of these operations makes prosecution difficult and call centers often pop back up within a day or two of being torn down.

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It's really big business. And finally, today, AI browsers, perplexity and Chat GPT have just launched their own browsers that can. Search and click and fill out forms for you. Those are all creating quietly, a whole new class of security risk. TechCrunch has an article where researchers found that many of these tools are lacking sandboxing and data isolation controls, which means they can unintentionally expose cookies or session tokens or sensitive files as they rum the web or your device.

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Theirs is called Atlas. Those new tech waves. Always start with innovation, and they always end with a patch cycle. So if your organization is experimenting with those new browsers, cool, but treat them like untrusted interns and supervise everything they touch. Or on this story and all the latest healthcare, tech and security news at this week, health.com/news.

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Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid and I will see you around campus.

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