Just got this email: Dear Participants, We are reaching out to inform you of an issue regarding a form you completed on Fairphone forum between March 3rd and March 4th . This form was part of our beta testing survey, titled “Beta Tester Application.” Due to a misconfiguration, participants who completed the questionnaire were able to view responses from others. We identified this issue on March 4th at 4:00 PM and immediately took action to close access and secure the data. This issue affected...

This issue affected 24 participants, including you. No one outside this group had access. The information that was exposed includes:

your name (if provided)
forum username (if provided)
email address
home address
phone ownership status
telecom operator
and IMEI number (if provided).

Upon discovery, we promptly:

Restricted access to the form responses
Corrected the misconfiguration
Conducted a review of the incident
Implemented additional security measures to prevent recurrence
  • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    This here is why you should be careful what data you share online. These 24 people were unfortunate enough to share data including name, Phone Number, home address, phone, email, telecom operator.

    The data you don’t share is always private by design.

  • notanapple@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    So the data of the 24 people, who signed for the beta program, were accessible to each other, to all the 24 people? Sounds like nothing burger to me. The odds of someone in the 24 people knowing about this issue beforehand I would say are pretty low.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    212·
    2 days ago

    I own a FP4 and this is another example of how they really do lack decent software engineers