A Washington ISP exposed the ‘keys to the kingdom’ after leaving a server unsecured

guest · Oct 23, 2018

A Washington ISP exposed the ‘keys to the kingdom’ after leaving a server unsecured
October 23, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/23/washington-isp-pocketinet-server-leak/

A Washington state internet provider left an unprotected server online without a password, exposing network schematics, passwords and other sensitive files for at least six months.
Worse, it took the company a week to shut off the leak, despite several phone calls and emails warning of the exposure.

The little-known internet provider, PocketiNet, [...] the company put its customers and its network at risk after it left open an Amazon S3 storage bucket [...] containing tens of gigabytes of files.

Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at security firm UpGuard, found the data and shared his findings with TechCrunch. He described the cache the “keys to the kingdom.”

Among the files, the bucket contained detailed diagrams of the company’s network setup, router configurations, and details and locations of customers’ equipment.
[...] also found spreadsheets and plaintext password files belonging to employees and network devices
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