Applicants to New York City’s affordable housing lottery program may be victims of a data breach, a CBS News New York investigation revealed.
Hundreds of thousands of applications dating back years were publicly viewable online, including salaries, home addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.
Applicants’ info appeared in search results
Imagine someone typing your name into a search engine and one of the top results is your apartment application and the private details you sent the landlord.
That’s what happened to the New York City affordable housing lottery applicants we spoke with. Their applications were among hundreds of thousands that we discovered online – publicly viewable…