A student admissions website used by families to enroll children into schools has fixed a security lapse that was exposing their personal information.
The website, Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids’ applications across thousands of schools, was allowing any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children.
The exposed data includes children’s names, dates of birth, addresses, pictures, and details about their school. Email addresses and phone numbers of parents, as well as information about children’s siblings, were also exposed.
Florida-based VentureEd Solutions, which develops and maintains Ravenna Hub, says on its website that it serves over a million…