Collaborate Disseminate
Rei Kurohei reports: GeniusU, a Singapore-based education technology company, has been fined $35,000 for a data breach that resulted in the theft of 1.26 million users’ personal data. The incident is one of the largest data breaches here in recen… Continue reading Edu-tech firm GeniusU fined $35,000 for data leak affecting 1.26m users
Manikanta Immanni reports: McDonald’s faced an indirect data breach where a hacker accessed sensitive information belonging to its clients in the Costa Rica branch. The company later said that a service provider it hired has left its client data expose… Continue reading McDonald’s is Informing its Costa Rica Customers About a Data Breach
Jaspreet Gill reports: Users of the Microsoft Teams platform at Army Futures Command earlier this month potentially exposed personal and health identifying information to an unsecured number of department employees, and AFC is moving to prevent it from… Continue reading MS Teams users at Army Futures Command potentially exposed private info
Soompi reports: Source Music has been ordered to pay a fine of 3 million won (approximately $2,438) by South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC). Last year, after GFRIEND’s sudden disbandment, Source Music used a Google questionna… Continue reading Kr: Source Music Fined 3 Million Won By PIPC For Accidentally Leaking Fans’ Personal Information
Diane Taylor reports: The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week. More than 170 email addresses were accidentally copied… Continue reading Home Office’s visa service apologises for email address data breach
Asbah Ahmad reports: Confidential student information in the Life Sciences department was disseminated via email on Apr. 7. The information included student GPAs, student names, student numbers, academic plans, and years of study as of Sept. 2021. Stud… Continue reading Ca: University Life Sciences students facing mass data breach Life Sciences students facing mass data breach
Jordan Unger reports: The MetroHealth System confirmed Wednesday that about 1,700 patients were affected by an accidental data breach. According to MetroHealth, the issue occurred during an upgrade to their electronic medical record system on Nov. 13. … Continue reading About 1,700 MetroHealth patients affected by data breach
Azeefa Fathima reports: The data of thousands of persons who had registered for attending the annual Chithirai festival of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple, was leaked via an email sent to those who registered on the temple’s website. The leaked data… Continue reading Massive data leak of devotees from Meenakshi temple, admin claims technical glitch
It’s the weekend, but breaches don’t take a break. Some breach or leak disclosures that I spotted in reading the news today: Ballad Health in Tennessee has disclosed a breach. As reported by WCYB, who also includes the full notice from Ball… Continue reading Weekend potpourri of breaches and leaks
Bharat Sharma reports: Personal information of hundreds of thousands of Indians was recently leaked, revealing details such as full names, dates of birth, home addresses, national IDs, and much more. The data breach was discovered by Safety Detectives … Continue reading Thousands Of Indians Exposed In Data Breach Affecting Money Lending App CashMama