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Details of chartered accountants on website
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:36:48 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/0819/1218868113806.html By JOHN COLLINS The Irish Times August 19, 2008 CONTACT DETAILS for more than 17,000 members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland have been inadvertently published on the web in the latest data security breach to hit a high-profile organisation. The information includes members' personal addresses, contact details including e-mail addresses and phone numbers, and personal data such as date of birth. The file also includes membership numbers and the temporary passwords allocated to members before their first log-in to the website. During a redesign of the institute's website in July, a version of its membership database was mistakenly published on its site. The new site went live on July 10th. It was alerted to the error by a member on August 5th. The information was not linked to anywhere else on the site but did appear in the public directories. As a result a number of search engines came across the page and indexed it. The institute's own investigation suggests that the data was "crawled" by four internet search engines. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/
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