US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) data leaked online informed CNN channel. Agency spokesman Ken McGraw said an investigation into the incident has been launched. According to TechCrunch, about three terabytes of internal US military correspondence could have ended up on the Internet.
According to CNN, the data leak was discovered on February 8. McGraw assured that we are talking about information coming from the mail server, which is not classified. According to him, the investigation concerns “a potential problem with the cloud service”.
“The only information we can confirm at this time is that no one has hacked into the information systems of the US Special Operations Command,” assured a SOCOM representative.
The leak was discovered by independent cybersecurity researcher Anurag Sen. reported TechCrunch portal. The publication reports that on February 20, the US Department of Defense installed protection for a server from which, for two weeks, internal correspondence of military structures in the amount of about three terabytes “leaked” to the network . It could be viewed without a password by any user who knew the IP address. The letters that entered the network contained, among other things, personal data and health information of employees admitted to work with classified information.
TechCrunch notes that Sen notified the Pentagon of the discovered vulnerability, after which the unprotected server was disabled, blocking his access.
On February 14, a Boston jury found Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin guilty of cyber crimes. He was charged with conspiracy to gain illegal access to computers and securities fraud. According to the investigation, Klyushin received a multimillion-dollar payment for hacking into US computer networks to extract confidential company information, which was then used in insider trading. According to the prosecution, the defendant and his accomplices earned nearly $90 million through stock fraud.
In mid-February, the United States and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on seven people suspected of being members of the Russian-linked cyber group Trickbot.
