Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site 197
Joanna Karczmarek sends us news of a massive privacy breach in the Government of Canada passport website. "A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information — including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's license numbers — of people applying for new passports. ... The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser."
Trash the World (Score:4, Funny)
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Breaking News, a L33t Canadian Hacker broke into a national security site, stealing millions of Dollars worth of personal information.
No word yet on any arrests.
More at 11.
31337 h4x0r (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/index.php?p=780 [freedom-to-tinker.com]
http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2005/06/morris-tribunal-learns-pitfalls-of.html [tjmcintyre.com]
http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=464 [zdnet.com]
Bad Monkey!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bad Monkey!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:25% of Canadians not born in Canada. (Score:4, Funny)
I wouldn't say Americans are that bad at English...
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Irresponsible name to have these days.
Re:fixed AND old news. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Accidentally on purpose (Score:1, Funny)
As a Canadian citizen, allow me to assure you that they were most certainly not concerned with saving money.
Re:Accidentally on purpose (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not surprised (Score:3, Funny)
Well you did say it was a government contract.
give us a break... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Any site that documents these breeches? (Score:3, Funny)