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A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security
The Department of the Interior's inspector general tested the federal department's cloud security by creating fake personal data and stealing it.
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. “Our tests succeeded because the Department failed to implement security measures capable of either preventing or detecting well-known and widely used techniques employed by malicious actors to steal sensitive data,” said the OIG’s report. That’s the bad news: The weaknesses in the Department’s systems and practices “put sensitive [personal information] for tens of thousands of Federal employees at risk of unauthorized access,” read the report.
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