Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Sensitive government information from an American defense contractor was recently found on an unsecured Amazon server. It was free for anyone to access — no password required. The information was housed in a publicly-accessible S3 cloud storage “bucket.” Data found in the bucket points to Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), an intelligence and defense consulting firm. BAH has an $86 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an agency working under the Department of Defense. The breach was discovered last week by Chris Vickery, a Cyber Risk Analyst for cyber resilience firm UpGuard. Vickery immediately emailed BAH, and then the NGA, to…
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