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Adoption Agency Data Exposure Revealed Information About Children and Parents
A trove of 1.1 million records left accessible on the open web shows how much sensitive information can be created—and made vulnerable—during the adoption process.
So when longtime data-breach hunter and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler came across a publicly accessible database online at the end of June that seemed to contain information related to adoption, he was instantly concerned. “This is the first time in all of my research that I’ve seen adoption data, and it stood out because a lot of these kids are very vulnerable,” Fowler tells WIRED. That statement also noted that Gladney is “constantly taking additional steps to further strengthen and bolster our systems to ensure our networks and the information entrusted to us is secure.”
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