Collaborate Disseminate
The Financial Express reports: The National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) in Bangladesh has exposed a database to the open web. The types of data that leaked online were extensive, American technology magazine WIRED reports. The list of da… Continue reading NTMC database exposed personal info to open web: report
When DataBreaches compiles statistics on health data breaches for Protenus’s annual Breach Barometer, Nebraska generally has fewer than 10 breaches per year. Seeing two reports in one brief period is a bit unusual. This week, DataBreaches found t… Continue reading We seldom see breach reports from Nebraska, so here are two.
Millions of Highly Sensitive Patient Records Exposed in Medical Diagnostic Company Data Breach Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet about a non-password protected database that contained over 12 million re… Continue reading No need to hack when it’s leaking, Wednesday edition
What is one headline writer’s “major IT breach” may be a blogger’s “data leak.” Adrian Weckler reports: The driving licences of thousands of motorists who had vehicles towed on behalf of the gardaí were left at the … Continue reading Ie: “Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach”
Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inme… Continue reading Inmediata settles multi-state litigation for $1.14 million; will improve data security and breach notification practices
Olivia Powell reports: More than 3.8 billion records have been exposed after digital protection firm DarkBeam left an interface containing the exposed records unprotected. The leak was discovered on September 18 by CEO of cyber security news site Secur… Continue reading More than 3.8 billion records exposed in DarkBeam data leak
Melia Masumoto reports: Cedar Park Middle School sent out an email to 207 parents earlier this week, requesting updated vaccine records. But without blind coping the email addresses, every address on the email was visible to all the recipients. …… Continue reading Leander ISD sends email about students’ vaccination status to over 200 people
The following press release was issued August 30 by Sweden’s Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY): Trygg-Hansa’s security flaws have meant that information on 650,000 customers has been accessible via the internet. The Privacy Protection … Continue reading Sweden’s Privacy Protection Agency fines insurer Trygg-Hansa for exposing sensitive customer data
Ben Doherty reports: The Australian government may be liable for tens of millions of dollars in compensation to asylum seekers after it posted their personal details online while they were in immigration detention. The mass data breach, discovered by G… Continue reading Au: Federal government could pay millions in compensation over asylum seeker data breach
Amanda Audi reports: Federal government agencies were convicted for leaking data of beneficiaries of Auxilio Brasil, a flagship federal aid program now renamed as Bolsa Familia, to financial agencies offering payroll deduction loans to low-income Brazi… Continue reading Brazil’s government convicted for data leak exposed by The Brazilian Report