Posted on 08/16/2021 4:28:32 PM PDT by algore
A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "no-fly" records was exposed on the internet.
The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Millions of people on no-fly and terror watchlists exposed
July this year, Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko came across a plethora of JSON records in an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that piqued his interest.
The 1.9 million-strong recordset contained sensitive information on people, including their names, country citizenship, gender, date of birth, passport details, and no-fly status.
The exposed server was indexed by search engines Censys and ZoomEye, indicating Diachenko may not have been the only person to come across the list: exposed watchlist records
The researcher discovered the exposed database on July 19th, interestingly, on a server with a Bahrain IP address, not a US one.
However, the same day, he rushed to report the data leak to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"I discovered the exposed data on the same day and reported it to the DHS."
"The exposed server was taken down about three weeks later, on August 9, 2021."
2 million white supremacists. The problem is bigger than I thought!
Don’t worry about it.
I’m sure you’re already on the DHS list.
I’m sure we all have files with DHS already.
Maybe it’s a way to chill dissent. Start releasing hacks and exposures to loudly hint to critics “WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!” If so, then critics were already on the list to begin with..
“The exposed server was taken down about three weeks later, on August 9, 2021.”
Good to see they jumped right on it.
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Im fine with it
Probably has a bunch of conservatives on there and now this gives them confirmation their government considers them an actual listed enemy
Time for lawsuits to start
Every FReeper’s on their list. No doubt of that.
It’s practically a badge of honor, these days, sad to say.
If we weren’t, we are now, after coming to this hotbed of insurrection. As DHS has stated time after time, white Americans conservatives are the most dangerous terrorists in the world.
Actually, I think the Democrat-Media Complex would refer to them as "2 million MAGA-hat-wearing white supremacist insurrectionist-terrorists". If true, that would be an awful lot of hats!
;^)
Did I make the list?
Yes, but it was The Best Dressed List of 2021.
Since it's a government list, you're probably on there twice, with your name spelled two different ways (or maybe with two different birth dates), neither of which is correct...
Anybody here that isn’t one of their glowies is on some list, somewhere.
Next election they set the Dominion machines to put everyone who votes Republican on the list.
I don’t fly anyway.
Nowhere to go and considering how airports and airlines treat the peasants, just as well.
Methinks you and me are on a number of lists already.
Oh well...
5.56mm
The Horror!
The FR start date is probably in the database as when everyone became an “Enemy of the State”.
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