U.S. authorities are investigating after a hacker claimed to have found a version of the country’s no-fly list on an unsecured server linked to a commercial airline company.
The Swiss hacker, who goes by the name maia arson crimew, said in a blog post that she recently discovered the list on an unsecured Jenkins server belonging to national airline CommuteAir. The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) no-fly database lists known or suspected terrorists who are prohibited from flying.
The server was found while the hacker was browsing Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, looking for exposed servers that may contain valuable information….