Somendranath Sharma reports: Confidential data entrusted to a Bhayandar-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company by a New York-based company was compromised recently. This has led to a police investigation, and the corporate espionage angle is also being probed. The BPO company registered an FIR stating that email addresses of the New York-based debt recovery company,…
Category: Business Sector
Thousands of medical injury claim records exposed by ad agency
Zack Whittaker reports: An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The database contained submissions as part of a lead-generation effort by X Social Media, a Florida-based ad firm that largely uses Facebook to advertise various campaigns…
Breaches have consequences: AMCA files Chapter 11
Jeremy Hill of Bloomberg reports: Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau Inc., whose business was blamed for a large-scale data breach that affected millions of Quest Diagnostics Inc. customers, filed for Chapter 11 protection, citing fallout from the security issue. The company, which collects patient receivables for medical labs under the name American Medical Collection Agency, listed assets…
Report: Job Portal Database Exposed
SafetyDetective reports: SafetyDetective’s research lab discovered a leak online that exposed an elastic server containing 3GB of data with over 1.6 million users affected. We informed the apparent owners of this database as soon as we were able to identify them. Because we did not receive a response from the owner of the database, we…
Dublin Port Company investigates data leak
RTÉ reports: The Dublin Port Company has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the source of the data leak to establish how it occurred and by whom it was carried out. This follows recent media reports regarding the company, detailing expenditure on credit cards. Read more on RTÉ
$27K in restitution ordered for man who hacked Palo Alto Online
Sue Dremann reports the follow-up on a hack that occurred in 2015 and that was previously reported on this site. The 36-year-old man who hacked and temporarily shut down Palo Alto Online and other Embarcadero Media websites nearly four years ago was sentenced Wednesday in San Jose federal court to time already served, one-year of…