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US Defense Contractor left Sensitive Files on Amazon Server Without Password

UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered a cache of 60,000 documents from a US military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency left unsecured on Amazon cloud storage server for anyone to access. The documents included the private Secure Shell (SSH) keys of a Booz Allen employee, and a half dozen plain text passwords belonging to government contractors with Top Secret Facility Clearance. The exposed data even contained master credentials granting administrative access to a highly-protected Pentagon system.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/us-defense-contractor.html

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