Adoption Agency Data Exposure Revealed Information About Children and Parents

The adoption process is attractive, attractive Deep personal information About children, childbirth parents, adopted parents and other caregivers. So for a long time Informance breach Hunter and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, which was found in an open database on the Internet in late June, it was immediately concerned about the adoption.

Fowler was blocked to determine the owner of the database of the database, which was a Texas-based non-profit Gladney central adoption center. He then tried to inform the organization about the information exposed on June 25, but did not receive the answer. On June 26, he attempted to report again and in a few hours the database was silently – I hope everyone was given before it could allow it.

It is a wrongly calculated database common OnlineYears later to increase awareness of the issue, to obtain information found. Especially excited to see the information related to the adoption, however, the identities of some children’s biological parents, medical and mental health condition of individuals, information on interactions about child protection services and even the orders of the court orders. The database, names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and unique identifiers designated to children’s work are also included in more typical identified information. Fowler, in the end, he was able to watch the database Gladney, because it also had information about some employees of the organization.

“I saw the adoption information for the first time in my research, because many of these children are very sensitive,” I believe that this information is going on to a different system and for a few days before you do bad guys. “

Fowler says the data is seen from the system used to organize customer information in Customer Relationships or CRMs, enterprises and other organizations. Trove was recorded more than 1.1 million and was 2.49 GB.

“Gladney’s central security is serious. We are working with the help of external information technologies for any event.” Information integrity and operations are our priority.

Asked that this should not be taken as a confirmation, Shuessler Gladney’s initial response is asked by Shuessler Gladney. This statement said that Glangney has always taken additional steps to further strengthen and increase our systems to ensure our networks and providing us.