Online security breach at SAH disgruntles many job seekers

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=63269

By Darren Taylor
SooToday.com
October 25, 2013

A SooToday.com reader has informed us that he has been the target of 
unsolicited emails, texts and telemarketing calls, and claims this is the 
result of a mishap involving the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) website's 
online job application system.

The reader was notified by SAH in a letter dated October 24, 2013 that an 
accidental privacy breach led to information contained in online 
applications to SAH being made available through world wide web Google 
search results.

Resumes and cover letters submitted through a new database on SAH's 
website from August 16 to October 2 were accidentally made available to 
Google because the vendor (the company which designs and hosts SAH's 
website) did not enable the database security settings.

The situation was explained, and apologized for, in a letter sent from SAH 
to affected job applicants.

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