Collaborate Disseminate
It is disgraceful that there are so many huge data leaks involving sensitive personal data, and yet here we are again. Cybernews reports: Health Genie, a healthcare IT solutions provider, left an open instance, exposing patients’ personal details as w… Continue reading Unsecured Health Genie bucket exposed almost 450,000 files with patient data — Cybernews
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. health conglomerate Kaiser is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach after confirming it shared patients’ information with third-party advertisers, including Google, Microsoft and X (formerly Twit… Continue reading Kaiser to notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers
Say there is a frontend mobile app and a backend server (let’s call this service MyApp) which hosts an API for the mobile app to connect to. The backend server makes any needed requests to third party APIs and only send what’s needed to th… Continue reading Is it impossible to protect an API from data redistribution?
Jagmeet Singh reports: The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents contai… Continue reading Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years
Christopher Brown reports: A proposed $6.49 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging that CorrectCare Integrated Health LLC failed to protect the personal information of 647,000 people in a January 2022 data breach was rejected by a federal court. Plai… Continue reading Proposed CorrectCare Breach Settlement Rejected Over Equitable Treatment
AJ Taylor reports: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are holding the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) accountable after a data breach allowed UNOS system users unauthorized access to over a million sensitive patient records. T… Continue reading Grassley, Wyden Probe Data Breach that Exposed 1.5 Million Organ Transplant Patients’ Sensitive Data
Jane Wester reports: U.S. District Judge Nelson Román of the Southern District of New York on Monday dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Ally Financial, finding that the plaintiff failed to establish the injury suffered by a data breach i… Continue reading Too Speculative’: US Judge Throws Out Data Breach Suit Against Ally Financial
There is an update to a data leak incident discovered and reported by independent researcher Jelle Ursem and DataBreaches.net in April 2021. Top Class Actions reports that Med-Data, a business associate that handles health insurance claims data, has a… Continue reading Med-Data data leak $7M class action settlement
Jeremiah Fowler reports: The publicly exposed database contained 2,363,222 documents in.PDF and.PNG formats with a total size of 92.3 GB. These included reservations, injury waivers, and receipts with partial credit card numbers and transaction details… Continue reading Over 2,300,000 records of Family Entertainment Business Were Exposed in Data breach
Jessica Lyons reports: Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay almost $5 million to settle allegations it illegally dumped protected health information – and hazardous waste – at its facilities across California. This sum won’t hurt at all for the co… Continue reading Quest Diagnostics pays $5M after mixing patient medical data with hazardous waste