Collaborate Disseminate
On June 8, Choice Health Insurance began notifying people of a data breach caused by human error. According to their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, they learned on May 14 that an unauthorized person was “offering … Continue reading Choice Health Insurance notifying people after vendor error resulted in a data breach
Another day, another leak. Another leak, another entity claiming it’s not real data. Another leak, another frustrating experience trying to responsibly disclose. According to Safety Detectives, they found exposed data related to an app called Tra… Continue reading Leaking Student Data From US Campus App Found — But is It Real?
ACY Securities describes itself as one of Australia’s fastest growing multi-asset online CFD trading providers. But as first reported by HackRead, the trading firm was leaking 60 GB of user data until independent researcher Anurag Sen persisted i… Continue reading AU: Researcher finds ACY Securities leaking 60 GB of User Data
Lucy Cormack reports: The personal details of almost 200,000 injured workers were mistakenly shared with 587 employers and insurance brokers in a major privacy data breach by embattled state insurer icare last month. A senior source with direct knowled… Continue reading Icare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers
Pegasus Airlines, a Turkish low-cost carrier, has accidentally leaked around 6.5TB of personal information of flight crew, flight data, and source code after misconfiguring an AWS bucket. Read more at Teiss. Continue reading Pegasus Airlines data breach exposes 6.5TB of flight and crew data
Caroline Haskins reports: Trust Stamp, a government contractor that develops facial recognition and surveillance tools for agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, left the personal information of several dozen people unsecured on a breached … Continue reading Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples’ data exposed in breach
On April 5, DataBreaches reported: And then there’s the Texas Department of Insurance. They informed the Texas Attorney General’s office that 1,800,000 Texas were affected by a leak involving names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, parts or al… Continue reading Texas Department of Insurance leak went undetected for three years — state audit
It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information. First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of … Continue reading UK: Central Bedfordshire Council leaked special educational needs students’ personal details
The Cornwall council accidentally published the personal details of five schoolchildren in publicly accessible meeting documents. Cornwall Council has apologized for the data breach, including their names, addresses, and dates of birth. It made the err… Continue reading UK: Cornwall Council Data Breach
Dan Horn reports: Personal information for more than 2,000 current and former Cincinnati city employees appeared online for almost two weeks in April because of a mistake, city officials said Friday. The employee data includes names, addresses, insuran… Continue reading No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Cincinnati inadvertently posted employees’ personal data online