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Protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota where TigerSwan private security personnel were stationed. (Image via CBSNews.com)
Resumes for hundreds of individuals who applied for work a US-based private security firm have been exposed in a security lapse by a third-party recruiting firm.
Around 9,400 resumes were discovered in a stored on a public, unlisted Amazon Web Services storage server by Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at security firm UpGuard.
The server belongs to recruitment company TalentPen, which until February was contracted by the mercenary firm TigerSwan to provide services for voluntary resume submission.
The resumes reveal the personal details of prospective employees who had applied to work for TigerSwan as far back as 2008 when the private security firm was founded, including former coalition and allied forces, and other private military contractors. Many of those who joined the company’s ranks went on to provide security work in the aftermath of the Iraq War, at the Sochi Olympics, and more controversially, the reportedly unlicensed North Dakota pipeline protests.
The exposed documents list a range of personal information, including an applicant’s home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, driver’s license and passport numbers, and social security numbers.
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