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A Massive Cache of Law Enforcement Personnel Data Has Leaked (zdnet.com)
Zack Whittaker, reporting for ZDNet: A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials, ZDNet has learned. The cache of data contained identifiable information on local and state police officers, and federal agents, who sought out or underwent active shooter response training in the past few years. The backend database powers the website of Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training -- known as ALERRT -- at Texas State University. The database dates back to April 2017 and was uploaded a year later to a web server, believed to be owned by the organization, with no password protection. ZDNet obtained a copy of the database, which was first found by a New Zealand-based data breach hunter, who goes by the pseudonym Flash Gordon.
These bootlickers are fine having all of our personal data so it's only karmic justice that we get the same. Teach these ham sandwiches a lesson they won't forget.
To say that the data set was not "password-protected," is equivalent to, "unencrypted like we always wanted to do with your iPhone."
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Remember, the OPM breach compromised every single federal worker
The Chicoms got a copy of the OPM database but you can't get it on the dark web, like this one will be. That's a major difference.
I know one of our fellow /.'ers who was seriously trying to get a copy of the OPM database. He turned up suddenly dead last year with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Probably a coincidence, but he was insistent that I turn off my cell phone before talking about it. No joke - I gave him a copy of Tails as I do for everybody but I have no evidence of causality there.
I only know a few of y'all in person, but you're the best kind of crazy friends.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Re "How was if swept under the rug?"
Read the report. Nothing was done. The US gov sat on the discovery about mil/gov data getting accessed for months.
The movement of data in real time out of the USA was allowed.
Nothing was done to protect the data. Nothing was done to secure and encrypt the data.
The data set was left as bait to try and see what was going to be done.
The data set was copied out of the USA. The US gov for some expected the data set to be searched and used in real time.
That the access would be back to the US site, not the movement of all data out of the USA. The data set was left open, unencrypted to see how the access and searching would happen.
Nothing was searched for and all the data got copied out as the US gov watched on. The only method discovered was that the data was copied.
The tame US media reported the copy of the gov/mil data set as if a movie studio had a movie archive copied.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"