MTB-m00se Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Greeting Hubbers, About a week ago I noticed that my ID, cell, and email address where available through the spectrum sport timing website (www.spectrumsport.co.za) and one other site. This information is searchable using Google. For example if you Google the following "inurl:www.spectrumsport.co.za <your id number or email address>" Google will potentially present links to excel sheets that contain the information that you used to enter these events. The two that showed with my info where:· USN CUP Race # 2 (note sure of date)· Walkerville_MTB_2013-07-14 These are not the only event result sheets with personal information that are searchable. It must be noted that the excel format documents are not availability through the main results page on the site. An email was sent to contacts for both sites. One site immediately responded and removed the document from their site. Spectrum Sport have assured me that they cannot load excel files into their site and that they don't know where it comes from and they will talk to the host. Though my information remains available on their site after more than one attempt to bring it to their attention and have it removed. The crux of the matter is that any company that is used by the organizers of these events and the organizers themselves have an obligation to ensure that the information given to them is handled with care and securely stored. This has not been done in this case. The reason for my post is not to name and shame but rather to alert Hubbers to the fact that your information could be available through these kinds of sites and that this obviously poses a risk to you security from an identity theft point of view. Rant Over
Long Wheel Base Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Wow thats not cool. Thanks for the heads up. Will need to check if i'm all of a sudden married to 10 nigerian woman.
Skylark Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 That's dodgy, sounds like that Jozi billing website stuff up.
Zatopek Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 hmm Naspers have the 2003 Die Burger results also archived with the ID's
MTB-m00se Posted March 19, 2015 Author Posted March 19, 2015 This is really not on.Browsing to "http://www.spectrumsport.co.za/Portals/17/ResultDoc/"lists an archive of what looks like all the races they have publish results for over the last few years. Most are clean PDFs but there are about 9 excel files containing information that really should not be on the public internet. Poor form SpectrumSport!!
The_black_stig Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 clearly this spectrum website design is simply outdated....
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