{"id":69649,"date":"2017-01-03T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69649"},"modified":"2017-01-03T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:35:45","slug":"another-leaky-subcontractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69649","title":{"rendered":"Another leaky subcontractor"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZDNet<\/a> reports on the latest data dump by Potomac Healthcare Solutions a subcontractor of Booz Allen Hamilton, they posted your PII to the web;<\/p>\n

Many of the victims involved in the data leak are part of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which includes those both formerly employed by US military branches, such as the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and those presumably still on active deployment. ]<\/p>\n

The bulk of the data is made up of military personnel files and lists of physical and mental health support staff, including nurses, doctors, and mental health professionals.<\/p>\n

Names, contract types, Social Security numbers, and duty start dates — dating back to 1998 — as well as billet numbers that detail the living quarters for when staff are not on active duty, are all included in the information leak.<\/p>\n

Unit assignments and places of work, which include military bases and their postings worldwide, were also in the documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

11 Gigs of PII were released because of unsecure computers sharing information – almost as if it was planned.<\/p>\n

[Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the MacKeeper Security Center, who found the data on the open web]’s discovery, however, was not as the result of any complicated heist, malware infection, or attack on the researcher’s part.<\/p>\n

Rather, it was the subcontractor’s own insecure server and use of “rsync,” a common protocol used for synchronizing copies of files between two different computers, which weren’t protected with a username or password.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to Bobo for the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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