The FBI Terrorist Equipment Center (TSC) may have exposed the records of almost 2 million people and left them accessible online for three weeks. Safety Researcher Bob Diagenko says he discovered a list of terrorist surveillance on July 19 which included information such as the name, the date of birth and the passport number of those listed in the database. The cluster also included “unloading” indicators.
According to Diagenko, the surveillance list was not protected by password. In addition, it was quickly indexed by search engines such as Censys and Zoomeye before the National Security Department took the Ninth August 9-line server. It is not clear that you may have accessed the data.
“Immediately I informed it to the Department of National Security Officials, who recognized the incident and thanked me for my job,” said Diachenko in a LinkedIn position sold by the Bleeping computer. “The DHS did not provide any other official comment, however”. We have reached the Department of National Security.
Among the surveillance lists, the TSC maintains is the United States Non-flight list. Federal agencies such as transport security administration (TSA) use the database to identify well-known or suspected terrorists who try to enter the country. It is enough to say, the information included in the exposed observation list was highly sensitive.
A recent Bipartisan Senate report recently warned of dazzling cybersecurity holes in several federal agencies, including the Department of National Security. He said that many of the bodied agencies had even implemented the basic practices of cybersecurity, such as multi-factors authentication and warned national security information, was open to theft as a result.
