A scary breach showed up in my news search today. Jamie Singleton reports: On Saturday, November 8, the Telegraph reported Wiltshire Police had accidentally released sensitive information. The article reads: “These included the door codes to safe houses for victims of rape and sexual assault, codes to access systems where digital files of evidence are…
Category: Exposure
Court of Appeal reaffirms MFSA liability in data leak case, orders regulator to shoulder costs
Julia Dowling reports: The Court of Appeal has reaffirmed the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) bears responsibility for an unauthorised disclosure of confidential data to the investigative website ‘OffshoreAlert’. The decision marks the latest development in a long-running legal battle over accountability and data protection standards within Malta’s financial regulator. This latest judgment, delivered on…
How many courts have had sealed and sensitive files exposed by one vendor’s error?
DataBreaches recently reported that researchers had discovered two courts had sealed filings and court records exposed, but the vendor responsible wasn’t responding to notifications. Despite months of trying to get a software vendor to respond to alerts that their clients’ files are exposed on the internet — including confidential and sealed court records — the…
Revealed: Afghan data breach after MoD official left laptop open on train
Holly Bancroft reports: A Ministry of Defence official revealed confidential information by leaving a laptop open on a train in another Afghan data breach, The Independent can reveal, as new documents reveal a string of government blunders which have put confidential information into the wrong hands. An officially sensitive personal email relating to Afghans seeking safety in Britain was also accidentally…
The 4TB time bomb: when EY’s cloud went public (and what it taught us)
Today’s episode of “No need to hack when it’s leaking” is brought to us by Neo Security. In the course of their research and scanning, they came across a 4 TB SQL backup. As Neo Security explains: An SQL Server BAK file is a complete database backup. It contains everything: the schema, all the data,…
Attorney General James Secures $14.2 Million from Car Insurance Companies Over Data Breaches
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $14.2 million from eight car insurance companies for failing to protect the private information of more than 825,000 New Yorkers. The data breaches were part of a hacking campaign that targeted car insurance companies’ quoting tools and stole people’s personal information, including driver’s license…