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http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1459141534&section=14

 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — Personal details of hundreds of expats living in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat were laid bare to the internet for hours last night thanks to the weak security of a police immigration website.

Openly available to anyone who visited the site were names, nationalities, passport numbers, professions and home addresses of foreign residents, showing where they all resided on an interactive map. The site, since taken offline, was supposed to be a test of an internal police database under development, according to an immigration police commander.

“It was a demo, we were testing it,†Maj. Gen. Thanusilpa Duangkaewngam, the officer in charge of the provincial immigration bureau, said by telephone.

 

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Thailand: Sensitive info about tourists revealed in 2nd online data leak

 

by Asian Correspondent Staff | 29th March 2016 | @ascorrespondent

 

 

Internet-Web-Sinister-940x554.jpgPic: AP.

 

ANOTHER data leak involving foreigners in Thailand has apparently been uncovered barely a week after sensitive personal information of foreigners living in the country’s southern provinces was revealed to have been to be hidden in plain sight.

SEE MORE: Apparent data leak leaves foreigners in southern Thailand anxious

 

This time the details of the foreign travelers, including their most recent vaccine shots, real names, nationalities, passport and flight numbers, and addresses in Thailand, among others, were made available on a government-sanctioned website.

 

A local media outlet reported that the website was operated by the Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, that displayed records of foreign travelers who passed through health checkpoints at Thai border controls, covering both air and land gateways.

 

 

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Sensitive details of foreigners displayed in easily-accessed govt website in Thailand. Image via Khaosod English.

 

The data uncovered mostly involved a people from South American countries and, although those who sighted it could not confirm how long the data had been online, records of the information dated back to 2012.

 

This latest revelation reflected poorly on the effort to protect sensitive information with proper security procedures.

 

Privacy advocacy group Thai Netizen Network spokesperson Arthit Suriyawongkul told Khaosod English that bureaucrats used flawed reasoning in both cases, saying that no one would be able to find the web addresses to access the sensitive information.

 

“It’s like you have a home, and you keep valuables in that home, and you hide a backdoor at the back of your house,†Arthit said. “But this doorway has no door at all. It’s just a frame in a hidden corner, and you hope that no one will know about this doorway,†Arthit was qouted saying.

 

A user named Brfsa2 on the popular ThaiVisa forum posted the bureau’s website address on a thread that discussed the earlier case of expats in southern Thailand.

 

The website was taken down an hour after the bureau received complaints from netizens on Monday and the Thai Netizen Network advised the public to report such “leaks†to the Center of Emergency Response Team, a state agency tasked with improving national cybersecurity.

 

The data leak revealed earlier this week set alarm bells ringing among foreigners living in southern Thailand, raising safety and security concerns with the sharing of sensitive information such as passport details and home addresses.

 

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/03/thailand-sensitive-info-about-tourists-revealed-in-2nd-online-data-leak/

 

I have to say it, IT in Thailand,

 

more fucknuckle behaviour, by people with fucknuckle educations, who think they're at the bleeding edge in the world, not from fucknuckle 3rd world Thailand.

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Your secrets are safe with us, says Phuket Immigration

 

PHUKET: The Chief of the Phuket Immigration Office in Phuket Town today said that private information of expats and tourists on the island remains safe and secure.

 

The database used by Phuket Immigration is not linked to the one breached on Sunday, the Phuket Immigration Chief has assured.

 

The assurance by Phuket Immigration Superintendent Col Sunchai Chokkajaykij follows the immigration data breach on Sunday (Mar 27) that saw personal details of thousands of foreign nationals living in Southern Thailand leaked online. (not leaked, published, in error, but published)

 

The breach revealed passport details of foreigners in the South, and even maps pinpointing where foreigners lived, with flags representing the foreigners’ nationalities.

 

“Our database is secure,†Col Sunchai told The Phuket News today.

 

“Expats need not to worry, as our system is not linked to the one used by the Immigration Office in Nakhon Sri Thammarat,†he assured. (which in itself exposes the efficacy and modernity of the system known as Thai-ness, no point in linking immigration databases is there?)

 

However, Col Sunchai did not elaborate on what information – if any – regarding expats and tourists in Phuket may have been kept – and exposed – by the breached database.

 

The database breached on Sunday exposed online the names, addresses, professions and passport numbers of more than 2,000 foreigners living in Thailand’s southern provinces, but mainly those residing in Nakhon Sri Thammarat province.

 

Col Sunchai also did not elaborate on what measures his office had taken to prevent such data breaches of private information stored by Phuket Immigration.

 

- See more at: http://www.thephuketnews.com/your-secrets-are-safe-with-us-says-phuket-immigration-56840.php#sthash.41B2c4TV.dpuf

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