The article says it was an upload exploit which tells me they didn’t properly limit and check the kinds of files being uploaded...someone uploaded a backdoor
The malicious “file” would need to be executed/opened in order for something else to happen. And I’m still dubious about 270 GB pull or push to where ever. But I’m not saying it didn’t happen that way.
My understanding is that an authorized user was compromised somehow and gave access to a bad actor.
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Really wasn’t a hack, very short list of suspects, maybe a dozen. Damage is done, the torrent file was loading out last night at a terrific rate, about 10,000% of normal traffic from that site.
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These fusion sites grew their databases so fast they had to hire outside admins to manage it. The mistake was that they didn’t compartment and firewall the data at all.
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Any access is complete access to all 200 police departments.