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WHID 2007-28: US Embassy probes hacking of online visa appointment system

Attack Information
WHID ID: 
2007-28
Date Occured: 
17 Jun 2007
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Target Information
Attacked Entity Field: 
Government
Attacked Entity Geography: 
USA
Attacked Entity Geography: 
Jamaica

If you live in a country from which you need a Visa to get to the states, you knew this would happen. The US online Visa appointment system is very open. Indeed too open. Someone in Jamaica took advantage of this to pre-allocate appointments.


While this might be classified as a business process design flaw, isn't security also about this?

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