Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoPentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel — stolen info includes Social Security numbers and job-related recordswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoA “friend” of mine got 200,000 NASA employees data including SSNs, pay accounts, etc. from an entirely unguarded Telnet door in 2002. You’d be surprised how many doors there are the larger a building gets that never bothers to upgrade security until an incident happens. Pretty sure it was very much a “We forgot we even had that door still” situation.
A “friend” of mine got 200,000 NASA employees data including SSNs, pay accounts, etc. from an entirely unguarded Telnet door in 2002.
You’d be surprised how many doors there are the larger a building gets that never bothers to upgrade security until an incident happens.
Pretty sure it was very much a “We forgot we even had that door still” situation.