US military notifies 20000 of data breach after cloud email leak

pn n n concatei18ntsearchvoicerecognitionretryn ppThe US Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last yearppAccording to the breach notification letter sent out to affected individuals on February 1 the Defense Intelligence Agency the DODs military intelligence agency said numerous email messages were inadvertently exposed to the Internet by a service provider between February 3 and February 20 2023ppTechCrunch has learned that the breach disclosure letters relate to an unsecured US government cloud email server that was spilling sensitive emails to the open internet The cloud email server hosted on Microsofts cloud for government customers was accessible from the internet without a password likely due to a misconfigurationppThe DOD is sending breach notification letters to around 20600 individuals whose information was affectedppAs a matter of practice and operations security we do not comment on the status of our networks and systems The affected server was identified and removed from public access on February 20 2023 and the vendor has resolved the issues that resulted in the exposure DOD continues to engage with the service provider on improving cyber event prevention and detection Notification to affected individuals is ongoing said DOD spokesperson Cdr Tim Gorman in an email to TechCrunchppDefenseScoop first reported news of the breach notification lettersppTechCrunch exclusively reported in February 2023 that the DOD was spilling about three terabytes of internal military emails some of which pertained to US Special Operations Command or SOCOM which carries out special military operations overseas Some of the exposed information included sensitive personnel information and questionnaires by prospective federal employees seeking security clearancesppAnyone with the public IP address of the exposed cloud email server could access the sensitive but unclassified emails inside using only a web browserppSecurity researcher Anurag Sen discovered the exposed data spilling online and asked for TechCrunchs help in reporting the data exposure to the US government TechCrunch reported the spill to SOCOM on February 19 The cloud email server was secured on February 20 after TechCrunch escalated the incident to senior US government officials after not hearing backppIts not clear for what reason the DOD took a year to investigate the incident or notify those affectedppA spokesperson for Microsoft did not respond to a request for commentppSensitive US military emails spill onlineppIt has become increasingly apparent that the sources of whatever dirt Republicans claim to have on President Joe Biden and his family can all be traced back to one man Andrew Feinberg reportsppGlobal Images Ukraine via Getty Dozens of Russian troops have reportedly been killed as they stood in line in an open field awaiting the arrival of a top general in Ukraines Donetsk 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