Pentagon Data Leak; Fully Secured Data, Exposed On Amazon Servers

Last updated: July 5, 2023 Reading time: 2 minutes
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A Researcher at cyber Security Company, UpGuard, Chris Vickery has discovered the Pentagon data leak which was available on free Amazon Web Servers. The U.S. defense department has accidentally leaked a trove of information stored in the cloud.

The data managing web service Amazon is a popular cloud storage platform that is in use by many individuals, organizations and governmental entities too. This service allows the customers to manage the things such as storing data and boosting computer power.

The exposed data includes at least 1.8 billion social media posts, news websites, and various publicly available sites, as told by Vickery to CNN Tech. These posts originated from many countries across the world, including the US, in various languages.

According to Vickery, the information is held by U.S. Central Command (Centcom) and U.S. Pacific Command (Pacom). However, the information is probably safe from malicious intrusions and the Defense Department secured the data on October 1 when the issue was addressed by Vickery to the officials in September.