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A security lapse exposed India’s CISF personnel files and health records

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports:

Internal documents, officer health records, and personnel files belonging to India’s Central Industrial Security Force were spilling online because of a data security lapse.

A security researcher in India, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation from the Indian government, found a database packed with network logs generated by a security appliance connected to CISF’s network. But the database was not secured with a password, allowing anyone on the internet to access the logs from their web browser.

Read more at TechCrunch.


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