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January 10, 2014 05:00 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VbISDIooD2s/story01.htm
Victorian Transport Department calls cops on 16 year old for reporting bug that exposed customers' personaldata
Last month, around Christmas, a sixteen-year-old Australian named Joshua Rogers living in Victoria told the Transport Department that its Metlink website was exposing the sensitive details of over 600,000 transit users, including "full names, addresses, home and mobile phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and a nine-digit extract of credit card numbers." He waited two weeks, but after he had not heard from Metlink -- and as the data exposure was ongoing -- he went to the national newspaper The Age, who called the Transport Department for comment.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VbISDIooD2s/story01.htm
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