Whoever hacked the LA Times’ interactive county murder map probably hoped to make a killing mining cryptocurrency – but swift action from a security researcher has put paid to their plans. Security researcher Troy Mursch, whose blog has focused on cryptomining threats in recent months, raised the alarm on Twitter, after discovering that an Amazon AWS S3 bucket belonging to the LA Times had been left wide open, granting global write-access to anyone who fancied dropping their code on the server.

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