Collaborate Disseminate
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stalk users, accord… Continue reading Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users’ Precise Locations
Joshua Ceballos reports: All Priscilla Haring wanted from her divorce attorney, Richard Glenn Ozelie, was a divorce. But, according to her complaint filed in Broward civil court in March, what she got instead was scores of confidential files belonging … Continue reading Boca Raton Attorney Allegedly Leaked Clients’ Confidential Files
Waqas reports on a leak spotted by VPNMentor: In total, the database contains 10GB worth of data from companies like SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN which is now available for free download on several different Telegram groups. On May 7th, 2022, a data… Continue reading Personal details of 21M SuperVPN, GeckoVPN users leaked on Telegram
Keegan Brooks writes: The DeKalb County School District has been making thousands of files containing sensitive student and staff information widely accessible to anyone in the district. Types of information exposed have included social security number… Continue reading Insufficient Data Security and Disregard for Student Data Privacy Plague the DeKalb County School District; With Commentary by Jim Siegl
BBC reports: A data breach affecting more than 400 students is being treated “very seriously”, the University of Essex said. Law firm Hayes Connor, which is representing some students, said an email from an external partner of the college i… Continue reading University of Essex data breach being taken ‘very seriously’
SafetyDetectives recently reported that Breastcancer.org has been exposing sensitive information in a misconfigured AWS bucket. According to their report, exposed data included more than 50,000 registered user avatars and more than 300,000 post images … Continue reading Breast Cancer Support Organization Leaks Data Despite Multiple Notifications?
Natasha Bezuidenhout reports: Police are investigating allegations which claim police files, dockets and rape kits from Steenberg Police Station were found discarded at a dumping site. Ward 68 councillor Marita Petersen claimed she found remnants of po… Continue reading Alleged docket dumping probed (South African Police Service)
Ran Bar-Zik reports what sounds like a situation where a cybersecurity student who engaged in responsible disclosure after finding a leak at the scholarship application website of the American Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”) felt… Continue reading This Israeli Helped One of the World’s Biggest Jewish Organizations – Now He’s in Trouble
Brian Higgins reports: A man who says he was the first person on Prince Edward Island to be hospitalized for COVID-19 is suing Health P.E.I. for breach of privacy. According to a civil suit filed in P.E.I. Supreme Court, information about the man’… Continue reading COVID-19 patient sues Health P.E.I. for privacy breach at hospital
Ionut Arghire reports: Cybersecurity firm Group-IB identified more than 91,000 publicly-exposed databases in the first quarter of 2022, significantly more than in the previous year. In 2021, the firm discovered a total of 308,000 exposed databases, wit… Continue reading Over 300,000 Internet-Exposed Databases Identified in 2021