Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details – Cloud – Security – iTnews

A misconfigured SharePoint site led to the exposure of files containing the personal information of almost 20,000 University of Tasmania students to anyone with a university email address.
The University of Tasmania said in a statement that the incident came to light on August 11 but that it had only today contacted students.
It said the misconfiguration was active – and the files broadly accessible to anyone with a utas.gov.au email address – “from February 27 to August 11” of this year.
“Th…

Click here to view the original article.