At least a terabyte of military emails, including personal information and conversations between officials, was exposed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – The US Defence Department and Microsoft are investigating an error that exposed at least a terabyte of military emails, including personal information and conversations between officials, people familiar with the matter said - an episode that highlights the security risk of moving sensitive Pentagon data to the cloud.
Information on a US Special Operations Command server was accessible without a password, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing information that has not been publicly released. A US Cyber Command spokesman declined to comment but said defensive cyber operators scan and mitigate the networks they manage.
The emails contained conversations between Pentagon officials as well as completed SF-86 forms, which government employees are required to fill out to obtain security clearances, according to screenshots of the emails shared by independent security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the leak.The exposure may have resulted from a configuration error with Microsoft’s server that left it publicly accessible, two of the people said.
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