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Ford bug exposed customer and employee records from internal systems A bug on Ford Motor Company's website allowed for accessing sensitive systems and obtaining proprietary data, such as customer databases, employee records, internal tickets, etc. The data exposure stemmed from a misconfigured instance of Pega Infinity customer engagement system running on Ford's servers. This week, researchers have disclosed a vulnerability found on Ford's website that let them peek into confidential company records, databases and perform account takeovers. The vulnerability was discovered by Robert Willis and break3r,…