Tax Relief Biz Exposes Customers’ Personal Information In Data Leak

guest · Dec 12, 2020

Tax Relief Biz Exposed Personal Info on 100,000 Clients
December 11, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/tax-biz-exposed-personal-info/

A UK business specializing in tax relief for its clients has exposed the personal details of over 100,000 of them via a misconfigured content management system (CMS).

Researchers at Website Planet told Infosecurity exclusively about the privacy snafu, which they discovered on October 13 and notified the firm about the next day.
That company was Marriage Tax Refund, a Wolverhampton-based organization whose business model is to recover marriage tax allowance funds for UK clients.
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Website Planet estimated that in excess of 100,000 clients who signed up to the scheme since the company’s founding in October 2016 could have had their PII exposed in this way.

“A combination of full name, address and marital status are sufficient for nefarious users to conduct identity theft and fraud. Furthermore, personal user details could be used to conduct fraud across other platforms without the victim becoming aware that such activity is occurring,” the researchers warned.
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Website Planet: Report: UK marriage tax relief specialist Exposes Customers’ Personal Information In Data Leak

A UK-based company specializing in recovering marriage tax allowance funds for UK clients has suffered a damaging data leak that could have led to the potential dissemination of all its clients’ personal information. It is important to note, however, that it is impossible for us to say whether the specific server vulnerability that led to the leak, actually led to sensitive information falling into the hands of nefarious users.
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