The data of thousands of American military were on the Internet

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Thousands of files containing personal information of US military personnel and intelligence officers, were in free access to the Internet.

Files were available for free download due to incorrectly configured cloud server, reports The Hill.

This is a summary and other personal information of applicants who were served in the international security firm TigerSwan from 2009 to 2017 a year. TigerSwan blamed the leak on the recruiting company TalentPen, which she collaborated with during this period.

In most cases, military personnel applied for work in the company, but among the applicants were also intelligence officers, police and UN workers in the Middle East. In the open access were, in particular, their home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.

According to the security specialist who discovered the leak of Upguard's firm Chris Vickery, access to this data was possible due to incorrect security settings. The server’s error was found in July on Amazon’s open cloud server, unprotected by any password, but until the end of August the problem could not be solved due to confusion with where the resumes were taken from.

In February, 2017, when TigerSwan terminated the contract with TalentPen, the recruiter used Amazon's cloud services to send a resume to a security company. TigerSwan stated that the transfer was performed using encryption, after which TalentPen should immediately delete the files from the “cloud” in Amazon. But the files remained on the site for several months due to an error in the security settings; moreover, these files were not encrypted.

In late August, Upguard contacted Amazon, which in turn reported an error to TalentPen, after which the files were deleted.

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