Largest US credit union leaked potentially sensitive information

Data leak.

• A researcher found 378GB of backup data
• The archive belongs to the Navy Federal Credit Union
• The files were quickly locked down

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU), the largest credit union in the United States, was leaking sensitive information to the open web by keeping a backup database unprotected and available on the wider internet. This is according to Jeremiah Fowler, a cybersecurity researcher known for hunting unencrypted, non-password-protected databases.