AWS, Google and Oracle may benefit as Microsoft blames the Pentagon and the Pentagon blames Microsoft
A hole in a US military email server operated by Microsoft left more than a terabyte of sensitive data exposed to the internet less than a month after Office 365 was awarded a higher level of government security accreditation.
According to security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the blunder and reported it, the openly accessible server was part of an internal mailbox system hosted on Azure Government Cloud and used by the Department of Defense for a variety of purposes – including the processing of security clearance paperwork.found the exposed public-facing server over the weekend and determined it was sitting there without a password, allowing anyone who had its IP address and a browser to access the data.
Thus far in the probe, there's no sign the data was accessed by miscreants, DoD sources told Bloomberg.The Pentagon and Microsoft have reportedly blamed each other for the error, but without receiving answers to our questions from either party there's only so much that can be determined, namely that an internal DoD email server appears to have been given a public IP without any sort of password protection.
No matter who's to blame, someone messed up. If the DoD's Inspector General's office is to be believed, there's a good chance that the fault lies within the government for misconfiguring its IT environment, and not Microsoft.
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