Pentagon contractor spied on social media, had unsecured data in cloud

Three unsecured AWS S3 storage buckets contained 1.8 billion scraped social media posts. The posts included posts in Arabic, Farsi and dialects spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The data was collected by the now-defunct government contractor VendorX, which did work for CENTCOM via a project called Outpost. VendorX left the settings wide so that anyone with a free AWS account could have browsed the data. The Pentagon denies the data collection was for intelligence purposes.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3237774/pentagon-contractor-spied-on-social-media-left-data-unsecured-in-cloud.html