{"id":249771,"date":"2026-05-19T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/developer-breaches-newmarket-website-for-resident-data-urges-better-cybersecurity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:45:17","slug":"developer-breaches-newmarket-website-for-resident-data-urges-better-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/developer-breaches-newmarket-website-for-resident-data-urges-better-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer breaches Newmarket website for resident data, urges better cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developer breaches Newmarket website for resident data, urges better cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.newmarkettoday.ca\/local-news\/developer-breaches-newmarket-website-for-resident-data-urges-better-cybersecurity-12289985<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-19 14:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.newmarkettoday.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Town confirms 24 records were accessed, and that security issues have been addressed <\/p>\n

Newmarket resident and software developer Daryl Burke said he was exploring the winter parking ban on the Town of Newmarket website when he noticed the security was amiss.<\/p>\n

Burke, who also does online security research, said he could tell the website was vulnerable. He found he was able to access the private information of residents \u2014 and knew more malicious hackers could have done the same.<\/p>\n

Burke said addressing the issue with the town has been frustrating, and he questioned how much they\u2019re taking responsibility for the vulnerability.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery community from the town (says) we follow industry standard,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re hiding behind those statements when in reality there are massive holes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The breach occurred March 20. Burke said the town\u2019s website \u2014 which has since been updated and restructured \u2014\u00a0had a vulnerability that was easy to expose in the scripting language, with the parking system using \u201csequential, predictable account numbers\u201d and the back-end not checking whether the person asking for an account record was entitled to see it.<\/p>\n

Burke said the vulnerability likely existed for an extended time. He said this could be an issue, given threats like the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security bulletin warning about state-sponsored Chinese cyber actors targeting all levels of government for cyber espionage in a 2024 bulletin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cyber Centre encourages provincial, territorial, Indigenous, and municipal governments, as well as Indigenous governance organizations, to bolster their awareness of and protection against sophisticated cyber threat activity,\u201d the federal cybersecurity bulletin said.<\/p>\n

With the town not having log data for website access going back longer than 90 days, there is no way to be certain if someone else may have access to other residents’ information without informing the town, as he did, he said.<\/p>\n

Also at issue was that the…<\/p>\n

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