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College Students, Artists Drawn Into Mongo HQ Breach Via Application Manager

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

I knew the MongoHQ breach affected Sunrise Calendar users, but Jeanne Price just alerted me to Buffer and DecisionDesk users also being notified:

News of a data breach at web hosting company Mongo HQ broke last week and shortly thereafter, unauthorized access to Buffer, a social media scheduling site, was unearthed and linked to Mongo’s snafu. Still the connection to most folks’ everyday lives was unclear. Ten days later, the true scope and impact of this hack is a bit more evident though this new knowlegde represents just ‘one client’s worth of hurt’. A notification emailed November 7th from one of Mongo’s clients tells of possible data loss for over 60,000 aspiring college students and performing artists and this particular notice is generating a great deal of confusion.

The company sharing the notice is DecisionDesk (DD), an online application manager business that uploads application—especially media like video auditions, drawings, and recordings–then stores them in the Cloud. Since 2010 the concept has allowed admissions reviewers to access and analyze applications from any location; DD estimates their service saves an estimated two hours per application review.

Read more and see the notification letter on idRADAR.


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