Scottish National Party members found among list of names signed up to rival Alba Party after website whoopsie

Scottish National Party members found among list of names signed up to rival Alba Party after website whoopsie

Alex Salmond's Alba Party has got off to a rocky start after a coding error on its website appeared to expose the names of those signed up.


First reported by Scotland's The Herald On Sunday, the names of more than 4,000 people who had signed up to attend events were inadvertently made public.

While the newspaper gleefully picked through the list to find high-profile members of the rival Scottish National Party (SNP), the nature of the error will cause disbelief in infosec circles.


According to the report, anyone who registerd with the site was given an ID, which could be used to share links to events with others. Those ID values were sequential, so simply changing the number on a link to an online event showed the person whose name corresponds ..

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