‘Bungle’ as second web flaw emerges

Thursday 20th March 2008, 2:30PM GMT.

Personal information of residents at Maison Maritaine was accessible online

INCOMPETENCE is to blame for care home residents’ personal information being accessible online, according to a leading security consultant.

The comments came as it also emerged that the States computer system has been breached before. Campbell Murray said yesterday that the States internet vulnerability was major and that personal information should not have been left on a server that was so exposed.

‘Getting access to it sounds like pretty basic stuff – a huge amount of knowledge wasn’t required to find the vulnerability and wouldn’t be needed to exploit it,’ said Mr Murray, technical director at Worcester-based IT security company Encription Ltd, which specialises in testing websites for weaknesses.