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The Web Hacking Incidents Database
Last update:17 February 2008
List of Incidents for a Classification
Please note that classifications are a new feature and not all entries in WHID are already classified, so when you get a certain number of entries for a classification, WHID might have more records matching that classification that we did not classify yet. We hope to complete the classification process soon.
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Attack Method, Country, Location, Origin, Outcome, Software, Vertical Select criteria for classification "Vertical":
Education, Entertainment, Finance, Government, Health, Information Services, Internet, Marketing, Media, Politics, Retail, Security & Law Enforcement, Service Providers, Sports, Technology
List of incidents for which Vertical is Health
2 incidents listed
Reported: 30 July 2007Occurred: 25 July 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Authentication
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Health
In a classic case of lack of proper separation between the production and development sites, an application under production with lack of proper authentication and authorization was installed on a hospital's public web site, enabling anyone to query a database of 51,000 names, addresses and social security numbers.
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Reported: 29 March 2007Occurred: 02 March 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unintentional Information Disclosure
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
- Vertical: Health
Personal information about 2,000 patients was mistakenly published on the hospital's web site. The leakage was discovered only when a patient found her information when "Googling" herself.
The information included personal data such as social security numbers, birth dates, address, phone number, insurance numbers and in some cases the reason for the visit.
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