Collaborate Disseminate
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports on yet another incident in which responsible disclosure by a researcher and follow-up by media failed to get a company to address vulnerabilities that left the personal information of customers exposed: A company t… Continue reading Maker of ‘smart’ chastity cage left users’ emails, passwords, and locations exposed
Dutch News reports: A data breach at the Dutch land registry Kadaster has exposed the addresses of every homeowner in the Netherlands, an investigation by RTL Nieuws has found. The privacy watchdog AP called for the agency to close the loophole immedia… Continue reading NL: Security breach at land registry exposes millions of addresses
Yoav Gonen reports: The city Department of Finance inadvertently emailed a roster of all of its staff — containing home addresses, cell numbers and personal email addresses — to the agency’s roughly 1,800 employees in a botched test of its emergency no… Continue reading NYC Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw … Continue reading UK: Press notice regarding data breach at Norfolk and Suffolk police
Jon Macpherson reports: Another police force has admitted a data breach after the names and salaries of all its staff were accidentally published online. Cumbria Police said that on March 6 it found out information about pay and allowances had been upl… Continue reading Cumbria Police admits huge data breach as names and salaries of staff published online
Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal … Continue reading Outrage at massive police data breach that saw the personal details of more than 10,000 PSNI officers and staff accidentally published online
Jonathan Killick reports: The Privacy Commissioner is “frustrated” to have learnt about a “serious” privacy breach through the media, relating to the email addresses of 147 firearms owners being spilled. In July, it was reported that the email addresse… Continue reading NZ privacy commissioner learnt about ‘serious’ breach from the media
Seen on WebsitePlanet: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet a non-password protected database that contained 680k records. Upon further investigation, it was identified that these records were related to e… Continue reading School Accreditation Organization Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Information on Students, Parents, and Teachers Online
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: VirusTotal today issued a mea culpa, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees. T… Continue reading VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users
Justin Kase and Rachel Murphy report: Hundreds of children’s private records were littered along the streets of Cape Coral. Police picked up most of the documents after they were reported Friday. Read more at WINK News. From the transcript and the vide… Continue reading Hundreds of children’s medical documents found along Cape Coral streets