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Some more information from an article in the star that came out earlier in the case: >Officials said about 250 of the documents contained highly sensitive pers
by exembly 8y ago
Some more information from an article in the star that came out earlier in the case:
>Officials said about 250 of the documents contained highly sensitive personal information including birthdates, social insurance numbers, addresses and government services’ client information.
>Conrad said the breach was inadvertently found by a provincial employee.
>“The employee was involved in doing some research on the site and inadvertently made an entry to a line on the site — made a typing error and identified that they were seeing documents they should not have seen,” Conrad told a technical briefing for reporters.
>Officials said the documents were accessed through a “vulnerability in the system” and not through a hack. The person went in through the URL and “sequentially went through every document available on the portal.”
>“There’s no question, this was not someone just playing around,” said Conrad. “It was someone who was intentionally after information that was housed on the site.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/04/11/halifax-police-investigate-after-nova-scotia-freedom-of-information-site-breached.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/04/11/halifax-polic...
It sounds a lot like the sort of simple vulns that many people in security noticed around that kid's age or earlier.