Administration website expose information of 50 million Bangladeshis
Date
7/10/2023 8:16:01 AM
(MENAFN) On Saturday, a government official informed Anadolu that it was investigating a data breach that exposed the personal information of over 50 million Bangladeshis on an administration website, and referred to it as "a global cyber insecurity crisis."
The vulnerability was detected by Viktor Markopoulos of Bitcrack Cyber Security on June 27, according to a Friday article from US high-tech website TechCrunch.
In accordance with the cybersecurity expert, TechCrunch called the Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) right away, but Markopoulos never heard back.
Names, phone numbers, email addresses, as well as National Identity Card (NID) numbers were among the personal data. The data is available on the administration website.
“The leaked data is legitimate by using a portion to query a public search tool on the affected government website,” as stated by TechCrunch. “By doing this, the website returned other data contained in the leaked database, such as the name of the person who applied to register, as well as, in some cases, the name of their parents. We attempted this with 10 different sets of data, which all returned correct data.”
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