9,400 resumes of US military & intelligence contractors exposed in massive security lapse – reports

‘Thousands of files containing personal data on former military, intelligence and government workers have allegedly been exposed to public view for months in a massive security lapse allowed by a US-based recruitment firm.
Some 9,400 sensitive files were found unsecured on a misconfigured public-facing Amazon cloud server. They allegedly contained personal information on former military and intelligence staff, some with classified or Top Secret security clearances, who applied for work at US-based private security firm TigerSwan, according to Gizmodo.
The files, discovered by a researcher at the California-based cybersecurity company UpGuard, were found in a folder called “resumes.” It contained CVs of thousands of US citizens, some granted Top Secret security clearances, indicating they might have worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency or the US Secret Service, among other government agencies.
“A cursory examination of some of the exposed resumes indicates not merely the varied and elite caliber of many of the applicants as experienced intelligence and military figures, but sensitive, identifying personal details,” UpGuard said in a statement cited by Gizmodo.’
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