Amazon S3 buckets belonging to American inteligense have been found open to the public by researchers from the Upguard Cyber Risk Team. 3 buckets, “centcom-backup,” “centcom-archive,” and “pacom-archive” (Centcom = American Military Central Command, Pacom = American Pacific command) represents 8 years of Social Media scraping with up to 1.8 Billion posts collected. Posts, users, IP numbers, password hashes etc all collected. Clues left leads to some information on the vendors involved and the tools used to analyze the data. Remember: nothing is private on Internet!
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Kristian's Internet Wanderings
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