It looks like Swiss hacktivist and security researcher maia arson crimew (twitter, fediverse) acquired an old copy of the US government No-Fly List, and it looks like it was left exposed on an unsecured server.
From maia's post:
"while the nature of this information is sensitive, i believe it is in the public interest for this list to be made available to journalists and human rights organizations. if you are a journalist, researcher, or other party with legitimate interest, please reach out at nofly@crimew.gay. i will only give this data to parties that i believe will do the right thing with it."
I'm personally quite interested in doing some data analysis on this thing, and I'm sure many others on here find the entire thing quite interesting. Apparently it has about 1.5 million entries, though many of those are aliases and alternative spellings. Still, it's a hell of a lot of people. From an article on The Daily Dot:
The list, according to crimew, appeared to have more than 1.5 million entries in total. The data included names as well as birth dates. It also included multiple aliases, placing the number of unique individuals at far less than 1.5 million.
On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him.
The aliases comprised different, common misspellings of his last name and other versions of his first name, as well as different birthdays. Many of the birthdays aligned with the recorded date Bout was born.
Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list.
Another individual, according to crimew, was listed as 8 years old based on their birth year.
Many entries on the list were names that appeared to be of Arabic or Middle Eastern descent, although Hispanic and Anglican-sounding names were also on the list. Numerous names included aliases that were common misspellings or slightly altered versions of their names.
“It’s just crazy to me how big that Terrorism Screening Database is and yet there is still very clear trends towards almost exclusively Arabic and Russian sounding names throughout the million entries,” crimew said.