Sensitive US military emails spill online

[MuzzMelbourne]

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/sensitive-united-states-military-emails-spill-online/

A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password​

The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks.

The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data. The exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations.

But a misconfiguration left the server without a password, allowing anyone on the internet access to the sensitive mailbox data inside using only a web browser, just by knowing its IP address.

Sensitive US military emails spill online | TechCrunch

A security researcher told TechCrunch that a government server was exposing military emails to the internet because no password was set.

techcrunch.com

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

"...a misconfiguration left the server without a password, allowing anyone on the internet access to the sensitive mailbox data inside using only a web browser, just by knowing its IP address..."

"...U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations..."

And these guy's want us to believe they'd be "responsible" users of Military AI.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Doesn't surprise me. Everyone makes stupid mistakes sometime in their life so it's not the end of the world. People in government are no different to ordinary people or businesses who leave open S3 buckets and databases open on the internet. Maybe it's a false flag operation? Let people think they are monitoring the US government while they are secretly watching the watchers? Maybe!

 

[cruelsister]

This is the issue with Government service. If one proves competent job offers flood in from the Private sector that essentially add a zero to the annual salary. So the Wheat flies off leaving the chaff behind.