I confess: some data leaks are not particularly interesting to me in terms of their sector or type of data leaked, but they become noteworthy because of the entity’s horrible, terrible, ridiculously bad incident response to attempted notification. Today we give you Maropost Inc. a marketing automation platform whose 10,000+ clients include New York Post, Shopify,…
Category: Breach Incidents
WI: EVERSANA reports breach of protected health information that occurred in 2019
EVERSANA, a global commercial services provider to healthcare entities, has disclosed a data breach that occurred between between April 1 and July 3, 2019. The breach reportedly affected patient data stored in a legacy technology environment, which has since been updated. According to their notification, “Upon notification of unusual email activity, the firm immediately conducted…
Vianet’s customer data compromised with latest leaks
NepaliTelecom reports: While we just completed the Challenges of ISP for the current situation, another news appeared of the data leak for one of the leading Internet services providers in Nepal. Of course, we had missed that part. The leak is of none other than Vianet whose customers’ details have been compromised with a possible hack happened…
Ca: N.L. privacy commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ about Facebook’s response to health info breach
Rob Antle reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner says he is “deeply concerned” that Facebook declined to remove personal medical information posted on its site, despite repeated requests from health officials, and only took action after receiving inquiries from the media. […] On Feb. 9, a Facebook user posted pictures on their page that showed…
Email provider got hacked, data of 600,000 users now sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold on the dark web, ZDNet has learned following a tip from one of our readers. “Unfortunately, we must confirm that we have suffered a hacker attack,” the Italian email service provider said in a statement to ZDNet on Monday. Read more…
Iran’s ban on Telegram that was intended to facilitate domestic spying backfired
More than 40 million Iranians had their personal data leaked and shared with strangers because they tried to use an alternative to Telegram after their government banned its use. It’s time for Iran to lift the ban before there are more massive leaks as people go online to seek information about COVID-19. by Dissent Doe…