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A Romanian hacker who goes by the handle “unu” has struck again: This time, he demonstrated how a SQL injection vulnerability left personal information in the form of passports exposed on an Intel Website.

Unu, who previously exposed SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Wall Street Journal and Kaspersky Lab’s Websites, this time focused on an Intel site that runs online registrations for channel partner events. The site, which is currently down, has a message posted that it’s offline for maintenance.

An Intel spokesperson says the company has taken down the site and is “investigating the matter.”

In his blog post on the Intel site’s vulnerability, unu says: “Not only is the website vulnerable to sql injection but it also allows load_file to be executed making it very dangerous because with a little patience, a writable directory can be found and injection a malicious code we get command line access with wich we can do virtualy anything we want with the website: upload phpshells, redirects, INFECT PAGES WITH TROJAN DROPPERS, even deface the whole website.”

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