• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Surely allowing access to this personal data via a public API is a data breach? Its just taking it from something that shouldnt have exposed it rather than hacking into a system

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      1 year ago

      Yeh.
      Same as if it was a CSV mailing list on an unprotected URL or whatever.
      The term “data breach” suggests there was security there to be breeched. Maybe it needs a better term?

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        1 year ago

        Data leak? In the security field, they categorize it as “information disclosure”… But it doesn’t have the same level of gravitas to it

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          We have investigated this unintended information disclosure and have concluded it’s the fault of the users for having information.

          • unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            Carries the same weight as “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”. It’s the fault of those little green men in kerbal space program.