A DHS DHS data center exposed to thousands of unauthorized users
Section The task of the homeland’s security for domestic oversight was to concern the privacy supporters because the organization was created for the first time following the 9/11 attacks. Now the data leak that affects the DHS information arm has not only been clarified not only on how to collect and store sensitive information – including monitoring Americans – but also how to leave the data to thousands of government and private sector workers and even foreigners who have never been allowed to see.
An Internal DHS Memo Obtained by a freedom of information of ACT (FOIA) Request and Shared with WireD Reveals that from 2023, A DHS Online Platform Used by the DHS Office of Intellation and Analysis (I & A) Shore Sensity Unclassified Intelligence Information Information and Investigative Leads Among the DHS, The National CounterterRerRRRRRORRRRRORRROR CENTER, Local Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Fusion Fusion Carters The Was the Was, randomly provides limited information to all users of this platform.
Access to data, based on a DHS question described in this note, is restricted to limit the Homeland Security Network Information section, known as HSIN-ETEL. Instead, he was supposed to give access to “all”, and provided information to tens of thousands of HSIN users. Unauthorized users of access included US government workers focused on non -information or law enforcement areas such as responding to disaster as well as private sector contractors and foreign government employees with access to HSIN.
Spencer Reynolds, a lawyer for the Bernan Justice Center, who gained the note through Foia and shared it with Wired, says “DHS Hsin advertise as a safe and says the information it has is sensitive and sensitive national security information.” “But the incident raises questions about how information is taken seriously. Thousands and thousands of users have access to information they never thought.”
HSIN-IntEL data includes everything from law enforcement and tips on reports of hacking and external information campaigns to analyze internal protest movements. This note on HSIN-Intel’s violations in particular, for example, reports on “protests related to a police training center in Atlanta”-appears to have been stopped by the Atlanta Police Safety Center-given the program to “drowning in the media” such as passionate and passionate fires.
Overall, according to DHS internal inquiries, 439 I and “products” in the hsin-intel section of the platform were incorrectly accessed to 1.525 times. Among these unauthorized access, the report shows that 518 private sector users and 46 were non -American citizens. The report states that access to foreign user is “almost completely” focused on cyber security information, and 39 % of all information products that have inaccurate access, such as cyber security, such as foreign government -backed hackers and targeting external government information technology systems. The note also noted: Some unauthorized US users who saw information were eligible to have access to limited information if they were asked to be licensed.
“When this programming error was discovered, I immediately fixed the problem and examined any possible damage,” a spokesman for DHS said in a statement. “After extensive reviews, multiple oversight bodies have identified that there is no effective or serious security violation,” he said. DHS takes all security and privacy measures seriously and is committed to sharing its information with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and private partners. “
