>“Netsential confirmed that this compromise was likely the result of a threat actor who leveraged a compromised Netsential customer user account and the web platform’s upload feature to introduce malicious content, allowing for the exfiltration of other Netsential customer data.”<p>So they are spinning it as a user's fault? Not the fault of Netsential for allowing malicious content to be a problem...
I’m disappointed that U.S. police departments would use such low a quality service with no focus on security. Looking at Netsential’s website, their services look very basic and inexpensive. There’s not even a mention of security on its site. It was only a matter of time before they were hacked.<p><a href="https://netsential.com/default.aspx?menuitemid=280" rel="nofollow">https://netsential.com/default.aspx?menuitemid=280</a>
If what the article says is true and PPI is indeed in these documents than these documents are ripe for fraud, criminal use and identity theft. This is worse than a password leak.
tweet with the bittorrent magnet URL and trackers: <a href="https://twitter.com/eldstal1/status/1274660276508545025" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/eldstal1/status/1274660276508545025</a>
This is quite wild. Is there any finer-grained summary of the sort of data leaked, and how extensive it is? Even a million documents could be anything from mundane to incredibly sensitive, depending on the sort of content.
> Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and a former assistant secretary of policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the BlueLeaks data is unlikely to shed much light on police misconduct, but could expose sensitive law enforcement investigations and even endanger lives.<p>But then there was this: <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1273329710576152581" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1273329710576152581</a>
Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets</a><p>Their server seems to be dead right now.
Years ago a fusion center in Missouri listed Ron Paul supporters as potential domestic terrorists. There were so many controversial aspect to these fusion centers.<p><a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2012-09-12/ron-paul-a-domestic-terrorist/" rel="nofollow">https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2012-09-12/ron-pa...</a>
I kind of share the sentiment expressed in the final quote of the article. From the way the dataset is described this could be really helpful to criminals and really harmful and dangerous for other folks - police and civilian alike.