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US Postal Service Exposes Data of 60 Million Users for Over a Year
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-postal-service-exposes-data-of-60-million-users-for-over-a-year/?utm_campaign=Security%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Security_Newsletter_co_104
Parties Involved
US Postal Service
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Severity
Medium
Disclosed Publicly
November 20, 2018
Initial Discovery
n/a
Leaked Information
email address, username, user ID, account number, street address, and phone number
Attack Vector
Data Breach
Tags
PII
November 22, 2018
US Postal Service Exposes Data of 60 Million Users for Over a Year
The US Postal Service ignored for more than a year an authentication oversight that exposed the account details of 60 million users to anyone that logged into the web service.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-postal-service-exposes-data-of-60-million-users-for-over-a-year/