{"id":349938,"date":"2020-05-02T06:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=349938"},"modified":"2020-05-02T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T04:56:56","slug":"supersonic-fixes-leak-in-data-usage-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/349938-supersonic-fixes-leak-in-data-usage-website.html","title":{"rendered":"Supersonic fixes leak in data usage website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet service provider Supersonic has fixed a security flaw in its customer status and data usage website that could leak client information.<\/p>\n

The usage portal allowed you to look up information about a customer using their account number, username, mobile number, or SIM number.<\/p>\n

However, clicking the “Submit” button next to the blank mobile number field resulted in a list of eight customer accounts being returned.<\/p>\n

Information from each of the exposed customer accounts that was potentially leaked included their name and cellphone number, as well as account number and username.<\/p>\n

As Supersonic account numbers are sequential, a user would also have been able to harvest data about customers in the database with a script. Fortunately, there is no evidence that such an attack to mass harvest customer data took place.<\/p>\n

“We have stringent systems and processes in place to detect issues like this and when there is a potential risk, we act on it as an emergency priority,” Supersonic told MyBroadband.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Supersonic is governed by MTN\u2019s data breach policy and would notify customers of any breach if there was one.”<\/span><\/p>\n

New Supersonic customer portal<\/h3>\n

Within three hours of the issue being reported to Supersonic, it had replaced its old status and data usage portal with a more secure version<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It only lets you view your connection status and data usage using the mobile phone number that has been linked to your account.<\/p>\n

The new portal also has a basic arithmetic security question to prevent a human from manually trying many different mobile numbers in quick succession.<\/p>\n

Screenshots showing the new and previous portals are embedded below.<\/p>\n

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New Supersonic portal login page<\/h3>\n

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Old Supersonic portal login page<\/h3>\n

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Old Supersonic portal account list (redacted)<\/h3>\n

This is the account list that appeared if you clicked the “Submit” button next to the mobile number field on the previous page.<\/p>\n

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Old Supersonic customer details page (redacted)<\/h3>\n

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Now read: Incredible Connection apologises for personal data leak<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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