the Cyber security of state secrets, the United States was under threat because of the love of military personnel and intelligence agents in an easy alcoholic beverages. Hackers were able to get the personal data of the employees of the us security agencies and other information of a secret nature, thanks to the Internet service, the rating of Beers. Military published in photos of their work identity and work documents, and also gave information about the location of some secret objects.
Despite spending billions of dollars to the Pentagon to protect state and military secrets, hackers freely receive the secret information from the Network. Often, the secret us military data published on their pages in social networks and various mobile applications. The real source of the secret data was the app for beer lovers Untappd. It is reported by the Bellingcat investigative journalism.
according to the Agency, soldiers of the U.S. army published photos with bottles and glasses of beer, often leaving the frame ID, the map of the location of military equipment, and other official documents.
Many users of military and intelligence agents themselves indicate in the settings of the app your location, which facilitates the work of hackers. In particular, their data left 600 soldiers base “Rammstein” US air force, us Embassy staff in Afghanistan, and many others.
the authors of the report also Bellingcat was able to get photos of a cadet training centre of the CIA in Williamsburg Virginia. He has published in the app dozens of photos, which, combined with satellite imagery allow you to find a large amount of information on the device database.
“Examples of users and data that you can track this way is a statement of the drones, as well as information about the lists of visited domestic and overseas military bases, a naval officer who has registered on the beach near the detention center (Guantanamo Bay), and several times at the Pentagon and senior intelligence officer with over seven thousands of registrations, both within the country and outside. Cross-reference to these registrations with other social networks makes it easy to find the homes of these people.” writes the Foca Postma, researcher and instructor at Bellingcat, who wrote the report.
the Researcher said that users of the app Untappd is often done by publishing, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, and not think about what you are doing. He managed to fix at least one case where in the frame were the documents marked “For official use”, which was published with some edits.
