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The second-largest pharmacy chain in the US recently disclosed a data breach that may have compromised the personal health information (PHI) of more than 72,000 individuals across the United States. According to Walgreens spokesman Jim Cohn, prescripti… Continue reading Walgreens Discloses Data Breach Impacting Personal Health Information of More Than 72,000 Customers
Researchers discovered a .git folder exposing passwords and more for a website that gives advice to organizations about complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules. Continue reading GDPR Compliance Site Leaks Git Data, Passwords
The SBA said sensitive information about applicants may have been revealed to others applying for disaster loan program funds. Continue reading Small Businesses Tapping COVID-19 Loans Hit with Data Exposure
Online exchange rate data provider Open Exchange Rates has exposed an undisclosed amount of user data via an Amazon database. Continue reading Exchange rate service’s customer details hacked via AWS
Researchers say the exposure includes exact locations of users’ last posts, nicknames, age, and gender. Continue reading Confessions app Whisper spills almost a billion records
Pharmacy chain Walgreens is alerting customers that their prescription data and other information may have been exposed thanks to a flaw in the company’s messaging app. An “error” in the messaging feature of the Walgreens app that customers use to track prescriptions left some of their personal information exposed to other customers between Jan. 9 and Jan. 15, according to Rina Shah, vice president of pharmacy operations. A “small percentage” of customers were affected, she said. Exposed data included customers’ names, prescription numbers, drug names and, in some cases, shipping addresses. It did not include financial data, Shah said in a letter posted last week to the California attorney general’s website. California law requires companies to report data breaches affecting state residents. It was unclear precisely how many people were affected by the breach. A Walgreens spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company advised customers to monitor their prescriptions […]
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Middleware data was exposed, which can create a secondary path for malware through which applications and data can be compromised. Continue reading Estée Lauder Exposes 440M Records, with Email Addresses, Network Info
Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users. Continue reading 267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online
A company that sells content management software and services exposed data on 477,000 media contacts, including 35,000 hashed user passwords, to the public internet. In October, iPRsoftware, a U.S.-based company that specializes in software that manages and disseminates company public relations and marketing, was discovered to be exposing the data along with administrative system credentials and assorted documents. Among the documents were marketing materials for client companies, as well as credentials for the company’s Google and Twitter accounts and a MongoDB hosting provider. Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at UpGuard, first contacted the company about the exposure in October. Despite the company’s acknowledgement of the issue, Vickery observed that over the next week, the only thing that changed was the appearance of a log file for the purpose of reviewing activity related to the open repository. When contacted weeks later by CyberScoop about the exposure, a company representative said it […]
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Names, addresses, phone numbers, call and text message records and account PINs were all caught up in a cloud misconfiguration. Continue reading AT&T, Verizon Subscribers Exposed as Mobile Bills Turn Up on the Open Web