https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/16/massive-oklahoma-government-data-leak-exposes-7-years-of-fbi-investigations/
By Thomas Brewster
Forbes Staff
Jan 16, 2019
Another day, another huge leak of government information.
Last December, a whopping 3 terabytes of unprotected data from the Oklahoma
Securities Commission was uncovered by Greg Pollock, a researcher with
cybersecurity firm UpGuard. It amounted to millions of files, many on sensitive
FBI investigations, all of which were left wide open on a server with no
password, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Forbes can reveal.
"It represents a compromise of the entire integrity of the Oklahoma department
of securities' network," said Chris Vickery, head of research at UpGuard, which
is revealing its technical findings on Wednesday. "It affects an entire state
level agency. ... It's massively noteworthy."
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