The Security Flaw in the Interview & Salary Negotiation Guide: Lessons Learned In early 2024, a popular career resource platform CareerCompass faced a major security incident when a critical flaw in its flagship "Mastering Interviews & Salary Negotiation" guide exposed sensitive data for over 10,000 users and 200+ partner employers. The guide, downloaded more than 150,000 times since its 2022 launch, promised to help job seekers ace interviews and secure fair pay—but a misconfigured cloud storage bucket left hidden datasets accessible to anyone with the right URL. What Went Wrong? The guide’s public-facing website hosted a download link to a PDF version of the resource, but the underlying AWS S3 bucket storing draft files, user survey data, and partner-provided salary bands was set to public read access by mistake during a 2023 infrastructure update.…