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February 19, 2016 by Gary Price

ORCID Reports Security Incident, Some E-Mail Addresses Exposed

February 19, 2016 by Gary Price

ORCID’s Executive Director, Laurel Haak, has posted about a security incident involving the ORCID web interface that took place for about 16.5 ending yesterday morning U.S. time.
She writes:

Yesterday (February 18) we experienced a security incident with the web interface of the ORCID Registry that affected 46,823 users (~2.5% of ORCID records). ORCID record information marked as private, specifically email address(es), was exposed. No passwords were exposed. Works, funding, and affiliation data were not affected, nor were the ORCID APIs that connect the Registry to external databases. We have no reason to believe that there was any data misuse.
The exposure was limited to the online public view of ORCID records that were accessed during the incident timeframe (21:07 (UTC) 2016-02-17 to 13:35 (UTC) 2016-02-18). We have contacted all users who were directly affected and set up a dedicated email to deal with questions and concerns.

Haak goes on to apologize for the incident and says that ORCID will be posting their Data Security Policy next week for public comment.
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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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