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Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

| | Amazon S3, CENTCOM, Data leak, insecure configuration, intelligence gathering, military, misconfiguration, PACOM, permission control, public access, storage bucket, VendorX
A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon’s S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts collected since 2009. The messages, posted by people from around the world, ...