James T. Madore reports: A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former employees and a small number of customers, the company said. Altice, the provider of Optimum cable television and internet services, said in…
Month: February 2020
Why, oh why, don’t some entities respond to notifications about leaking patient data, Wednesday edition
Since the summer of 2019, this site has occasionally reported on findings by WizCase researchers, such as our report in October on multiple entities that they had discovered leaking medical or health data. Today, WizCase reported on three more leaks that they discovered leaking patient data. They shared their findings exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The first…
Former Fifth Third employees stole customer info, gave to outside group
John London reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach at Fifth Third Bank and it appears to be an inside job. According to Fifth Third, “a small number of employees” stole personal data from the bank. Read more on WLWT.
Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services hit by Ryuk ransomware on Christmas Eve
A Public Notice by Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services of February 5 begins: The purpose of this communication is to post notice that Mississippi Center for Legal Services and North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, [MCLSC/NMRLS] has been the victim of a ransomware computer system attack that has resulted in…
UK: RideLondon organisers apologise after data breach
BBC reports: Organisers of the RideLondon cycling event are “urgently looking into” a data breach involving potential participants’ personal details. It is unclear how many applicants have been affected by the issue which saw entrants receive other people’s ballot results. The events, due to be held in August, is open to 80,000 applications and last…
Estee Lauder Exposed 440 Million Records Online – Researchers
Jeremiah Fowler reports (typos are in the original): On January 30th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a massive amount of records totaling 440,336,852. Upon further review I was able to see connections to New York based cosmetic company Estée Lauder. I could see audit logs that contained a large number of email addresses…