The university presidents’ council said this morning that the security of its central admissions system has been upgraded after the personal data of around 23,000 students was advertised for sale on the dark web.
The university presidents’ council insisted that the leaked admissions data, which included personal information and examination results, was only current through last May after anger erupted over the data breach. #BanTCAS was surging on Thai Twitter this morning in reference to the Thai University Central Admission System, or TCAS.
“The TCAS2022 system has been changed to a new model with an improved website where sensitive file data is stored in a private format that cannot be directly accessed,” the council statement read.
Acknowledging that the data had been left in the open, an institutional shortcoming of Thailand’s unsophisticated IT…
