{"id":63384,"date":"2012-10-29T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63384"},"modified":"2012-10-30T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T06:05:13","slug":"gauteng-com-exposing-user-e-mails-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/63384-gauteng-com-exposing-user-e-mails-phone-numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng.com exposing user e-mails, phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gauteng.com, a tourism portal run by Intoweb<\/a>, had a publicly accessible URL that displays the details of every request for information, quote, or booking made through the site dating back to 17 April 2007.<\/p>\n

Details such as the name, e-mail address, and telephone number of the person requesting information are exposed.<\/p>\n

The information appears to have been indexed by Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other information shown at the link includes the venue about which the request was made, the date the request was sent, and the message users sent through the site.<\/p>\n

Four buttons are also shown next to each request for information, such as delete and reply. The functioning of these buttons was not tested.<\/p>\n

\"Gauteng.com<\/a>

Gauteng.com privacy issue<\/p><\/div>\n

Following a request for comment to Intoweb the page no longer appears to be public.<\/p>\n

Intoweb MD Darren Harris<\/a> said that the page is not supposed to be accessible to the public, adding that they have protected it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt probably happened when we moved the site from an older server to a new server,\u201d Harris said<\/p>\n

Thanks to Anonymous for the tip<\/em><\/p>\n

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