Students’ Data left Unprotected by International Education Body

The Institute of International Education (IIE), a century-old educational organisation that operates numerous leading international scholarship and fellowship programmes across multiple countries, was detected to have left sections of its database unprotected and open to public search. The vulnerable database was detected by security researcher Bob Diachenko, who found the databases indexed in public domain on January 29th. He subsequently reported the vulnerability to the IIE, but states that he received no communication from IIE after multiple efforts to reach out to the organisation.

Source: News 18