Security News > 2017 > June > Intelligence data, security credentials found exposed in the Amazon cloud (Help Net Security)
2017-06-01 15:41
A data cache containing highly sensitive US military data has inadvertently been exposed online, UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery has discovered last week. After downloading and analyzing the data, he tied it to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and guessed that it likely belonged to private intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The contents of the cache Located on an unsecured, publicly accessible Amazon server, the repository included some 60,000 files that, among other … More →
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