Dell Cameron reports:
A data breach at a Missouri law enforcement agency in January left thousands of sensitive records exposed online, including jail incident reports, arrest records, and more.
Security researchers who discovered the breach at the Warren County Sheriff’s Department say the leaked backup files—numbering in the hundreds of gigabytes—also include multiple audio recordings containing police interviews with confidential informants, as well as witnesses and victims of crimes, raising concerns about the safety of the individuals exposed, as well as the integrity of police investigations.
“This type of data is extremely damaging for ongoing cases and to protect crime victims,” said Bob Diachenko at the MacKeeper Security Research Center, which discovered breach on an unsecured network-storage device and reported it to Warren County in mid-January. MacKeeper said that the audio recordings included cases involving “child molestation allegations, weapons and drug charges.”
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