{"id":38027,"date":"2020-11-05T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T08:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/deloittes-test-your-hacker-iq-site-fails-itself-after-exposing-database-user-name-password-in-config-file\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T08:28:04","slug":"deloittes-test-your-hacker-iq-site-fails-itself-after-exposing-database-user-name-password-in-config-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/deloittes-test-your-hacker-iq-site-fails-itself-after-exposing-database-user-name-password-in-config-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Deloitte&#8217;s &#8216;Test your Hacker IQ&#8217; site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2016\/07\/12\/password_shutterstock.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A website created for global consultancy Deloitte to quiz people on knowledge of hacking tactics has proven itself vulnerable to hacking.<\/p>\n<p>The site, found at the insecure non-HTTPS URL <code><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/deloittehackeriq.com\/\">http:\/\/deloittehackeriq.com\/<\/a><\/code>, makes its YAML configuration file publicly accessible. And within the file, in cleartext, is the username and password for the site&#8217;s mySQL database.<\/p>\n<p>The site invites visitors to &#8220;Test Your Hacker IQ&#8221; by entering a username. It then poses a series of multiple choice questions about techniques employed by hackers to obtain corporate information. The quiz doesn&#8217;t cover the possibility of publicly exposed passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The blunder was spotted on Wednesday by Tillie Kottmann, a Switzerland-based IT consultant and developer who uses the handle &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/deletescape.ch\/\">deletescape<\/a>.&#8221; The website was taken down in Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.9324324324324\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deloitte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Deloitte<\/a>, what exactly is my hacker IQ now? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bqv25kdDsU\">pic.twitter.com\/Bqv25kdDsU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tillie Kottmann \ud83d\udc9b\ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udda4 (@antiproprietary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antiproprietary\/status\/1324006900401426434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kottmann in August published <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/08\/06\/intel_nda_source_code_leak\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaked Intel technical materials<\/a> as well as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/08\/04\/sonarsource_defends_sonarqube_after_leaks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SonarQube source code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <code>deloittehackeriq.com<\/code> domain was registered by Tank Design, a Massachusetts-based digital marketing firm, in 2015 and the site includes a 2015 Deloitte Development LLC copyright notice.<\/p>\n<p>Kottmann told <i>The Register<\/i> that the last commit to its .git repo was in 2017 and said it&#8217;s not clear how actively the site is being used. 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