Flight Centre hackathon behind data breach

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Flight Centre hackathon behind 2017 breach, exposed 6918 customers' data

Full post-mortem revealed for the first time.

www.itnews.com.au

A 2017 data breach at Flight Centre occurred when passport and credit card numbers for 6918 customers were accidentally left in a dataset used by the participants of a hackathon.

Oops. A few lessons to be learned there. The hackathon was used to help try and improve customer systems used during the sales process and ended up in a data breach.

 

[kookaburra75]

Oops indeed. Someone forgot to do the, "... what could possibly go wrong..." check