Bayern Munich Football Club Reward Fan With Signed Jersey For Hacking Their Website (Photos)

Bayern Munich Football Club Reward Fan With Signed Jersey For Hacking Their Website (Photos)

Daniel 'Ghost' Martins, a Bayern Munich fan, has been rewarded by the German Bundesliga champions for hacking into the club's website and revealing security flaws.

Martins, an information security expert, chose to check the website of his favorite team in order to 'help the team in some way.' He quickly discovered that there were configuration issues, and that confidential data, including financial information, could be exposed.

He informed the club of his findings, and after initially receiving no response, he finally received one when Bayern thanked Martins with a signed Thomas Muller shirt.

'As soon as I found the fault, immediately, at dawn, I made a report and sent it to them,' Martins told The Sun.  

'They took a while to fix [it] and didn't even respond to me at first.

'But a journalist from Globo (Daniel Mundim) saw this fact and helped me get in touch with them. Successfully.

'They corrected it, and as a way of thanking me they sent me a shirt signed by the club's biggest idol, Thomas Muller.'

 

Martins then went into further detail on exactly what the issue was that he discovered.

'I explored, and found a vulnerability of the 'information disclosure' type, which roughly speaking is a kind of information leak due to bad configuration,' he added.

'Basically it occurs when a site unintentionally reveals confidential information to its users. Depending on the context, sites can leak all kinds of information to a potential attacker.'

 

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