The watchlist, which included 1.9 million records, was left exposed online for three weeks, according to the researcher who found it. The leaked documents also reveal that the watch list includes 611,000 men and 39,000 women across the u.s., from cities like. 1.9 million records from the fbi's terrorist watchlist leaked online a copy of the fbi's terrorist watchlist was exposed online for three weeks between july 19 and august 9, 2021, a security researcher revealed today
FBI Leaked Internal Document Puts You On Watchlist For Being Pro
Known as the fbi terrorist screening center (tsc), the database was created in 2003 as a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The list was left accessible on an elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it.
According to classified documents leaked to the intercept, a national security news site founded by journalist glenn greenwald, 40 percent of the terrorist suspects in the federal government's terrorist screening database have no connection with any terrorist group
