2w ago

Fairphone data leak

Just got this email: Dear Participants, We are reaching out to inform you of an issue regarding a form you completed on Fairphone forum between March 3rd and March 4th . This form was part of our beta testing survey, titled “Beta Tester Application.” Due to a misconfiguration, participants who com...

This issue affected 24 participants, including you. No one outside this group had access. The information that was exposed includes:

        your name (if provided)
    forum username (if provided)
    email address
    home address
    phone ownership status
    telecom operator
    and IMEI number (if provided).

Upon discovery, we promptly:

        Restricted access to the form responses
    Corrected the misconfiguration
    Conducted a review of the incident
    Implemented additional security measures to prevent recurrence

4 comments

This here is why you should be careful what data you share online. These 24 people were unfortunate enough to share data including name, Phone Number, home address, phone, email, telecom operator.
The data you don't share is always private by design.

I own a FP4 and this is another example of how they really do lack decent software engineers
- Can you share some examples?

So the data of the 24 people, who signed for the beta program, were accessible to each other, to all the 24 people? Sounds like nothing burger to me. The odds of someone in the 24 people knowing about this issue beforehand I would say are pretty low.