Vast trove of travelers' personal info posted on govt website

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Vast Trove of Travelers' Personal Info Posted on Govt Website
By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter


A screenshot of the database with names, passport numbers and residence addresses blurred.

BANGKOK — Sensitive information of tens of thousands of foreign travelers, including their real names and passport numbers, was publicly available on a government website until it was taken down yesterday in response to publicity.

Operated by the Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, the website displayed records of foreign travelers who passed through health checkpoints at Thai border controls, both air and land.


A screenshot of the database with names, passport numbers and residence addresses blurred.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1459230109

-- Khaosod English 2016-03-29

[Thian]

Who from the UK stayed in Nana hotel?? You're lucky they blurred your name!

[JetsetBkk]

Get any A4-sized form from Phuket immigration office and the chances are that on the back of it is someone else's passport, visa or bank information.

[khwaibah]

Who from the UK stayed in Nana hotel?? You're lucky they blurred your name!

Great hotel. You name it they have it.

Edited March 29, 2016 by khwaibah

[thesetat2013]

Seems like nobody has any chance of protecting themselves from all of these leaks out of Thailand. Why don't they just send a list to ISIS and make them pay for it instead? Then they can sell us expats the bullseye to wear.

[clockman]

Third world, and always will be!

[ScotBkk]

Who from the UK stayed in Nana hotel?? You're lucky they blurred your name!

I heard it's great in there especially the quick rooms for the desperadoes with only a sheet on the bed for a meaningful adorable special wonderful jaw dropping 15 seconds of adulterous hell. Yeah' I was that soldier !!!

[phuketandsee]

Who from the UK stayed in Nana hotel?? You're lucky they blurred your name!

Great hotel. You name it they have it.

And if you stayed there you probably have it too now.

[terryp]

what is really disgusting is the lack of ANY follow up to both yesterdays AND now this revelation …I guess as foreigners in this place we still continue to be of NO concern and have No rights over our personal information……I guess the urgency to register all passports for SIM numbers is now going to be revealed as the total waste of time many on here said at the time ...

[yellowboat]

Is Thailand the cardboard box of Cyber security ?

[robertthesculptor]

So much fot Thailand being a future leader in IT.....

[X pat]

I wonder if you have a problem because of this if it will do any good to report it to your embassy.

[leeneeds]

Twitter, face book, linkedin, the iPhone

nothing is secure,

expecting any different from banks ,hospitals

immigration and the multitudes of other holders of personal information.

all are accessable , not hearing about the breaches is a sad fact,

this one we did.

[BudRight]

Get any A4-sized form from Phuket immigration office and the chances are that on the back of it is someone else's passport, visa or bank information.

This is getting bigger than a few outraged expats. If the various ambassadors to Thailand don't adress this then they're not doing their jobs.

[balo]

Thats why I never give them my passport when I check-in , my old DL is good enough.

[NCC1701A]

glad to see TV took my comment about this being a story into itself to heart.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/906324-personal-details-of-hundreds-of-foreigners-in-thailand-leaked-online/?p=10579747

thanks to "brfsa2" for the original link!

"Sensitive information of tens of thousands of foreign travelers, including their real names and passport numbers, was publicly available on a government website until it was taken down yesterday in response to publicity."

they removed the name and passport columns from the website.

Edited March 29, 2016 by NCC1701A

[Somtamnication]

"CERTIFICATED" must be one of those new ASEAN Englishisms we all have to learn.

[crazydrummerpauly]

Get any A4-sized form from Phuket immigration office and the chances are that on the back of it is someone else's passport, visa or bank information.

This is getting bigger than a few outraged expats. If the various ambassadors to Thailand don't adress this then they're not doing their jobs.

When did they do any kind of job ?

[ozyjon]

Seems like nobody has any chance of protecting themselves from all of these leaks out of Thailand. Why don't they just send a list to ISIS and make them pay for it instead? Then they can sell us expats the bullseye to wear.

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

Is Thailand the cardboard box of Cyber security ?

That's why there are no foreign spies here, you either get the info you want by asking for it, or get it by mistake or you pay tea money and get everything you dreamed of.

[SOTIRIOS]

....complete and utter lack of respect....and zero professionalism...

...amongst everything else.....nothing says..... 'they couldn't care less about us'....more than this...

...and as for all their..... 'crack downs on passports'....and national security and terrorists..etc......may as well throw that out the window....

...they just opened the floodgates......

...and of course...nobody is responsible or to blame....

[johnatong]

....complete and utter lack of respect....and zero professionalism...

...amongst everything else.....nothing says..... 'they couldn't care less about us'....more than this...

...and as for all their..... 'crack downs on passports'....and national security and terrorists..etc......may as well throw that out the window....

...they just opened the floodgates......

...and of course...nobody is responsible or to blame....

The response of a Drama Queen who like to ignore the loss of data that occurs regularly in the West !

http://www.techworld.com/security/uks-11-most-infamous-data-breaches-2015-3604586/

Have a read then have a rant about the "complete and utter lack of respect....and zero professionalism..." that is commonplace in the UK and the USA.

[mesterm]

"Trust me, we're Thai."

Wai-ing till infinity

[Benmart]

Third world, and always will be!

Been coming here since 1993 and now live here full-time. There is no place I've ever lived, worked or visited that satisfied "everyone's" idea of perfection. I can't tell the future, therefore I can't comment on the "always", which seems not to happened yet.

If I am not happy, I can always move on.

[johnatong]

For those worried about major data breaches check the link to discover where such breaches occur.

http://www.techworld.com/news/security/global-data-breaches-hit-1500-last-year-public-disclosures-reveal-3598130/

[soalbundy]

Who from the UK stayed in Nana hotel?? You're lucky they blurred your name!

Great hotel. You name it they have it.

No STD is missed out, with some unknown ones

[soalbundy]

Seems like nobody has any chance of protecting themselves from all of these leaks out of Thailand. Why don't they just send a list to ISIS and make them pay for it instead? Then they can sell us expats the bullseye to wear.

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Look on the bright side at least you get your name in the news

[AlQaholic]

I am not sure today but in the past these kind of databases would be illegal in most countries in Europe (except U.K.) as well as surveillance (CCTV) coverage not approved by the authorities.

[kiwikeith]

Is Thailand the cardboard box of Cyber security ?

Well we should all feel safe as there is no ISIS here, nor terrorists blowing up shrines, these are just people who need attitude adjustment.

[jspill]

....complete and utter lack of respect....and zero professionalism...

...amongst everything else.....nothing says..... 'they couldn't care less about us'....more than this...

...and as for all their..... 'crack downs on passports'....and national security and terrorists..etc......may as well throw that out the window....

...they just opened the floodgates......

...and of course...nobody is responsible or to blame....

The response of a Drama Queen who like to ignore the loss of data that occurs regularly in the West !

http://www.techworld.com/security/uks-11-most-infamous-data-breaches-2015-3604586/

Have a read then have a rant about the "complete and utter lack of respect....and zero professionalism..." that is commonplace in the UK and the USA.

1. Pointing out that something happens elsewhere isn't an argument. It's unprofessional everywhere.

2. Your comparison fails even harder because this wasn't a loss of data, or a leak, the data was deliberately placed online and then public officials dismiss it as 'only a demo' or lie that 'there was nothing on there'. In the West there'd be investigations, apologies, and heavy penalties. Indeed that link of yours talks about fines of up to a quarter of a million pounds being handed out.