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D.C.: Metro website security breach made personal data accessible to public

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Dissent

Kris Van Cleave reports a breach involving the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority web site:

Metro officials say that they’re working diligently to fix a security breach on their website that potentially allowed a person to access the personal information of anyone who has applied for a job with WMATA.

That data could be accessed by anyone who had the email address of a Metro applicant and was willing to do a little bit of clicking through WMATA.com’s Careers section.

The issue, which was brought to light by a caller to the ABC 7 newsroom, allowed people to quickly access the full profiles of job applicants, including resumes, addresses, phone numbers, references and several other pieces of data.

Read more on WJLA. WMATA claims a maximum of 13 people might be affected.

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