Security News > 2021 > August > Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "No-fly" records was exposed on the internet.
Millions of people on no-fly and terror watchlists exposed.
July this year, Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko came across a plethora of JSON records in an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that piqued his interest.
The researcher told BleepingComputer that given the nature of the exposed fields it appeared to be a no-fly or a similar terrorist watchlist.
The agency maintains the classified watchlist called the Terrorist Screening Database, sometimes also referred to as the "No-fly list."
"The TSC watchlist is highly controversial. The ACLU, for example, has for many years fought against the use of a secret government no-fly list without due process," continued the researcher.