Security News > 2021 > January > United Nations Environment Programme Exposed 100,000 Employee Records
Security researchers with Sakura Samurai identified exposed GitHub credentials on a United Nations Environment Programme subdomain, which allowed them to access a trove of data, including more than 100,000 employee records.
While researching security flaws in assets within the scope of The United Nations' vulnerability disclosure program, the Sakura Samurai researchers discovered an ilo.org subdomain that exposed.
In one of these, two documents containing over 102,000 travel records of employees were identified.
These records included names, employee ID numbers, employee groups, justification of travel, start and end dates of travel, approval status, length of stay, and destination.
The researchers also found two documents containing over 7,000 HR nationality demographics records: employee names and groups, ID numbers, nationality and gender of employee, employee pay grade, and organization work unit identification number and unit text tags.
Over 1,000 generalized employee records were found in another document: index numbers, employee names and emails, and employee work subareas.