Via The Register: Massive US military Social Media Spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets
Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing “dozens of terabytes” of Social Media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.
The archives were found by veteran security breach hunter UpGuard’s Chris Vickery during a routine scan of open Amazon-hosted data silos, and these ones weren’t exactly hidden. The buckets were named centcom-backup, centcom-archive, and pacom-archive.
