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Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Dissent

Jennifer Baker reports:

The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security.

The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and phone numbers were published on the site and easily uncovered using the site’s search function.

Read more on The Register.


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