Misconfiguration in Power Pages may have leaked personal information.
More than a million NHS employees had data leaked by a Power Pages instance belonging to the agency's shared business service provider.
According to a report from AppOmni, the data included phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses and was caused by misconfigured implementations in Microsoft Power Pages.
A low code tool that enables easy generation of web portals, Power Pages is typically part of Microsoft’s Dataverse relational database and allows public interaction with a company, and provides remote access to data for employees.
Such misconfigurations, which stem from inadequate awareness of Power Pages access controls, may be more prevalent among public sector organisations across Europe, AppOmni chief of SaaS security research Aaron Costello told SecurityWeek.
"The public sector is under a lot of pressure to get things up and running as quickly as possible. If citizens or employees need a service, the sector tries to push that as fast as possible – and it's very easy to accidentally expose data when you're rushing.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
