“Cloud Security Under Scrutiny: Federal Agency Hacked by Government Watchdog”
A U.S. government watchdog stole more than one gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The good news: The data was fake and part of a series of tests to check whether the Department’s cloud infrastructure was secure.
The experiment is detailed in a new report by the Department of the Interior’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), published last week.
The tests were conducted between March 2022 and June 2023, the OIG wrote in the report.
The Department of the Interior manages the country’s federal land, national parks and a budget of billions of dollars, and hosts a significant amount of data in the cloud.
