Bangladesh government website leaks citizens’ personal data
Reading Time: < 1 minutesA Bangladeshi government website leaked the personal information of citizens, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses and national ID numbers.
Viktor Markopoulos, a researcher who works for Bitcrack Cyber Security, said he accidentally discovered the leak on June 27, and shortly after contacted the Bangladeshi e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (CERT). He said the leak includes data of millions of Bangladeshi citizens.
In Bangladesh, every citizen aged 18 and older is issued a National Identity Card, which assigns a unique ID to every citizen. The card is mandatory and gives citizens access to several services, such as getting a driver’s license, passport, buying and selling land, opening a bank account, and others.
Bangladesh’s CERT, the government’s press office, its embassy in Washington, D.C. and its consulate in New York City did not respond to requests for comment.
Markopoulos said finding the data ‘was too easy.’
The exposure of email addresses, phone numbers and national ID card numbers is bad on its own, but Markopoulos said that having this type of information could also ‘be used in the web application to access, modify, and/or delete the applications as well as view the Birth Registration Record Verification.’
Additional reporting by Jagmeet Singh.
Ref: techcrunch
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