Norwich Airport database hacked
03.12.11
A hacker using the name ‘Kahuna’ has broken into the systems of the Norwich Airport and then harvested and leaked personal information contained in their job applications' database, according to website helpnetsecurity. Names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of over 2000 people who have applied for a job at the airport, as well as the names, usernames and passwords of the administrators of the norwichairport.co.uk website were leaked on Pastebin on Thursday.
The hacker posted a message to the UK Government: ‘Your sites that should be the most secure are still just as flawed as all the rest. If you think that there is any information that we cannot obtain you are incorrect. The people can get everything, and this goes to show. NOTHING is protected from prying eyes. Continue to allow the Occupy Protestors to demonstrate peacefully.’
The hacker explained that he was reading about a vulnerability that affected a site software and he found out that the airport site was affected. He said: ‘I realised that they would most likely consider fixing it as soon as possible if I released all the info, so I dropped it on Pastebin and sent out a tweet.'
The airport did not comment on the news. From the message to the Government we would guess that the hacker is not from the UK, and therefore does not realise that the airport is privately owned and operated. Not that this makes the security lapse any less serious.
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