A researcher discovered a data cache from the fbi’s terrorist screening center left online without a password or authentication requirement. The list was left accessible on an elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. It seems someone working at the fbi screwed up and posted a terrorist watchlist database online without any authentication required to view it
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Volodymyr bob diachenko, head of security research.
1.9 million records from the fbi's terrorist watchlist leaked online a copy of the fbi's terrorist watchlist was exposed online for three weeks between july 19 and august 9, 2021, a security researcher revealed today
Known as the fbi terrorist screening center (tsc), the database was created in 2003 as a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.