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Fortune
Alice Hearing

HISTORICAL FACTS: Tsa s no fly list was exposed by a bored hacker - Caught on Camera

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer works at a security checkpoint (Credit: Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The TSA’s no-fly list, containing the identities of known or suspected terrorists, has been discovered sitting on the public internet by a hacker who stumbled upon it when they were bored. 

Consisting of 1.5 million entries with names and birthdates, the document was found within a computer server hosted by regional Ohio-based airline CommuteAir under a text file plainly titled “No-Fly.csv.” 

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