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The U.S. Department of Defense discovered an exposed server that had been leaking internal military emails to the open internet for two weeks.

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The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft's Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers.

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The server was without a password, allowing anyone on the internet access to the sensitive mailbox data inside.

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The server stored about three terabytes of internal military emails, many of which pertained to U.S. Special Operations Command.

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Anurag Sen, a security researcher, found the exposed server and alerted TechCrunch, who then notified the U.S. government.

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The server contained sensitive personnel information, including completed SF-86 questionnaires filled out by federal employees seeking security clearance.

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None of the data seen by TechCrunch appeared to be classified.

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The mailbox server was first detected as spilling data on February 8.

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An investigation is currently underway to determine how the mailbox data became exposed to the public internet.

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It is unknown if anyone other than Sen found the exposed data during the two-week window that the cloud server was accessible from the internet.

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