TSA U.S. No Fly List Leaked on Hacking Forum

It was recently discovered that a U.S. No Fly list, containing over 1.5 million records of banned flyers and 250,000 selectees has been found published on a hacking forum. According to BleepingComputer, its the same TSA No Fly list that was found on an unsecured CommuteAir server. Per Daily Dot journalist Mikael Thalen, the list was made publicly available by Swiss hacker maia arson crimew, formerly known as Tillie Kottmann. The hacker apparently got in the possession of the list through a misconfigured AWS server belonging to Ohio-based airline CommuteAir. Steps were taken immediately to patch the leak, but the list surfaced regardless. BleepingComputer, with support from Thalen, confronted the list posted on the blog with another one found on the CommuteAir server. Two CSV files were analysed, NOFLY and SELECTEE, with the latter likely listing names of passengers who undergo a Secondary Security Screening Selection upon their arrival at U.S. airports. The NOFLY spread contained over 1.5 million records, including duplicates and spelling variations of some names, indicating that the number of names exposed is lower than the number of recorded entries in the spreadsheet. The SELECTEE spread is comprised of 251,169 records. The lists from the year 2019 include first names, last names, dates of birth, and even potential aliases of the surveilled persons. The No Fly List is also known as the Terrorist Screening Database, and is relied upon by multiple federal agencies to manage and share consolidated info for counterterrorism purposes. Given the crucial role they play in assisting with duties related to national security and law enforcement, even though they are not Classified, such databases are hidden and considered to be sensitive in nature. The government may Nominate terrorists or plausible suspects who represent a threat to national security for inclusion on the secret watchlist. One such entry discovered by Daily Dot is the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, together with his 16 potential aliases. When inquired by BleepingComputer to give more detail on the incident, a TSA spokesperson declared that the organization has started an investigation to get to the bottom of the problem. A security directive was issued to airports and air carriers on the 27th of January. The security directive reinforces existing requirements on handling sensitive security information and personally identifiable information. We will continue to work with partners to ensure that they implement security requirements to safeguard systems and networks from cyberattacks. Another source close to the matter informed BleepingComputer that no TSA information systems were compromised as part of the breach. CommuteAir was notified by a member of the security research community who identified a misconfigured development server. The researcher accessed files uploaded to the server in July 2022 that included outdated 2019 versions of the federal no-fly and selectee lists that contained certain individuals names and dates of birth. The lists were used for testing our software-based compliance process for implementing federally-mandated security requirements. Through the server, the researcher accessed a database containing personal identifiable information of CommuteAir employees. CommuteAir immediately took the affected server offline and started an investigation to determine the extent of data access. To date, our investigation indicates that no customer data was exposed. CommuteAir has reported the data exposure to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and also notified its employees. U.S. Congressman Dan Bishop, alongside Dr. Mark Green, the Homeland Security Committee chairman, posted a series of

This Cyber News was published on heimdalsecurity.com. Publication date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:59:03 +0000


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