Collaborate Disseminate
Brian Krebs reports: The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwid… Continue reading U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails
Suzanne Smalley reports: Over the course of the last week, 118 class action lawsuits were filed against data brokers who allegedly failed to respond to requests from about 20,000 New Jersey law enforcement personnel asking to remove their personal info… Continue reading New Jersey law enforcement officers sue 118 data brokers for not removing personal info
Zack Whittaker The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach notification letter sent out to affected individuals on Fe… Continue reading US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
Roger Collins reports: The Hamilton Paramedic Service says it has been mistakenly sending the personal information of some of its patients to the wrong hospital. Over the last four years, according to the municipal healthcare service, some paramedics h… Continue reading Ca: Hamilton’s Paramedic Service mistakenly sent patient info to wrong hospitals
Jonathan McCambridge reports: More than 1,000 PSNI officers and staff have taken up an offer of a payment to help with home security improvements following a major data leak. The Policing Board was told the cost to the force of the scheme is currently … Continue reading Ie: More Than 1,000 Apply for Security Payment Following PSNI Data Leak
Salvador Rizzo reports: A former IRS contractor who leaked a slew of confidential tax records filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of President Donald Trump, was sentenced Monday to the maximum of five years in prison. Charles Littlejohn … Continue reading Ex-IRS contractor who leaked Trump’s tax returns sentenced to 5 years
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today announced it has reprimanded South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a data breach which resulted in a disclosure containing sensitive information to a unauthorised family member. In November … Continue reading UK: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reprimanded for “serious, harmful” data breach
Vilius Petkauskas reports: The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a mind-boggling 26 billion records. The leak, which contains LinkedIn, Twitter, Weibo, T… Continue reading Mother of all breaches reveals 26 billion records: what we know so far
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained nearly 1.3 million records, which included COVID-19 testing information and personally identifiable information such … Continue reading COVID Test Data Breach: 1.3 Million Patient Records Exposed Online
On January 11, DataBreaches noted a concerning blob exposure discovered by Jerome Fowler and first reported by vpnMentor. As WIRED’s Matt Burgess reported: Last month, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs… Continue reading Raptor Technologies’ unsecured blob exposure was worse than they acknowledged. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — so far.