Security News > 2024 > April > OWASP discloses data breach caused by wiki misconfiguration
The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach after some members' resumes were exposed online due to a misconfiguration of its old Wiki web server.
OWASP says it discovered the Media Wiki misconfiguration in late February following several support requests.
"The resumes contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and other personally identifiable information," said OWASP Executive Director Andrew van der Stock.
"OWASP collected resumes as part of the early membership process, whereby members were required in the 2006 to 2014 era to show a connection to the OWASP community. OWASP no longer collects resumes as part of the membership process."
OWASP also took several measures to address the data breach, disabling directory browsing and reviewing the web server and Media Wiki configuration for other security issues.
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