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Jurgita Lapienytė reports: A Korean IT company developing and selling enterprise software has leaked over 50 million sensitive records. The 2 TB-strong Kibana dashboard has been exposed for over two years. Cybernews researchers discovered it back in Ja… Continue reading Enterprise software provider Tmax leaks 2TB of data
DataBreaches would have passed over a listing on LockBit3.0’s site if Brett Callow hadn’t kindly called our attention to it. The listing by the threat actors was for HSKS Greenhalgh Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, and LockBit … Continue reading A cyberattack on a U.K. accounting firm wound up leaking U.S. patient data. Now what?
On November 12, DataBreaches published an OpEd, If entities continue to obfuscate and lie, it’s time to mandate more transparency in breach disclosures. Today, we post another example of why we need to legislate and enforce data breach notification law… Continue reading Does claiming you were hacked when you had really just screwed up violate the FTC Act?
In addition to Florida, represented by Consumer Protection Division Multistate and Privacy Bureau Chief Patrice Malloy and Senior Assistant Attorney General Diane Oates, the following states joined the action: Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York… Continue reading States settle with Morgan Stanley for $6.5 million over data security incidents
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