Update: DataBreaches.net has received a statement from Uncle Maddio’s public relations firm in response to this site’s inquiry concerning a leak I had reported to them on December 15, and had attempted to follow up on a number of times since then. Their statement did not arrive before the publication deadline, and with personal information still risk,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Canadian data breaches in 2015: Big firms weren’t the only targets
Howard Solomon reports: Of all the publicly-disclosed data or privacy breaches in this country in 2015, one topped them all by a wide margin: Ashley Madison. With over 30 million records exposed from the dating site, a $578 million class action suit filed against parent Avid Life Media, the CEO resigning after his emails were…
Credit card info of donors to pro-Muslim or anti-islamophobia organizations leaked
Update: Post-publication, the Virtue Center web site was taken offline and has not returned as of December 23. An undated entry on another site lists Shakil Islam and Faizan Sattar as “former employers” of VC. At the time of publication, however, they were listed on VC’s web site as part of their team. Follow-up e-mail…
Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans (UPDATED)
Over on Salted Hash, Steve Ragan reports on yet another MongoDB Database leak uncovered by Chris Vickery. This one involves a database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. As such, a lot of children’s information may be in the database. The records exposed include first and last names, birthday…
More federal hot water for Nomi after possible phone tracking database leak?
Regular readers of PogoWasRight.org may recall that Nomi Technology ran afoul of Section 5 of the FTC Act over statements in its privacy policy that it did not live up to. To settle charges by the FTC, they signed a consent order in April, 2015. But now they may be facing some more questions from the FTC, because researcher…
Two apps with health info found leaking: researcher. Part 2: Hzone
This is Part 2 of today’s posts reporting on apps leaking health information. The leaks were shared with DataBreaches.net by researcher Chris Vickery, and this one involves very sensitive health and medical information. Part 1 reported on iFit’s data leak. Screenshots provided to DataBreaches.net on December 8 by Vickery revealed that 4,926 user accounts from Hzone Dating App for HIV-positive…