According to Wired.com, a security hole has been discovered in the Safe Harbor web site, which gives access to confidential information including company revenues, numbers of employees and the EU countries with which individual companies trade. Wired.com claims that this loophole has been in existence since the site went on-line and that it allows unauthorised members of the public to alter information on the web site database.
This breach of security contradicts express guarantees given to the companies registered with the scheme that their details will not be made publicly available without their consent except where required by law.
A notice was posted on the Safe Harbor web site last Thursday stating that both the self-certification form and the Safe Harbor list had been removed from the site as part of a security review.