Massive Oklahoma Government Data Leak Exposes 7 Years of FBI Investigations

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/16/massive-oklahoma-government-data-leak-exposes-7-years-of-fbi-investigations/

By Thomas Brewster
Forbes Staff
Jan 16, 2019

Another day, another huge leak of government information.

Last December, a whopping 3 terabytes of unprotected data from the Oklahoma 
Securities Commission was uncovered by Greg Pollock, a researcher with 
cybersecurity firm UpGuard. It amounted to millions of files, many on sensitive 
FBI investigations, all of which were left wide open on a server with no 
password, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Forbes can reveal.

"It represents a compromise of the entire integrity of the Oklahoma department 
of securities' network," said Chris Vickery, head of research at UpGuard, which 
is revealing its technical findings on Wednesday. "It affects an entire state 
level agency. ... It's massively noteworthy."

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