Amy Clare-Martin reports: Army leaders have launched an inquiry after the identities of soldiers in the SAS were revealed in a fresh data breach. Details about the elite unit, part of the UK special forces, are usually kept so secret that its members are barred for life from discussing their involvement unless they receive prior approval. News of the…
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Government will ‘robustly defend’ compensation claims from Afghans put at risk by data breach
So after putting their lives at risk, the UK’s Ministry of Defence will firmly resist giving anyone even a pence for what they have gone through? Lettice Bromovsky reports: Thousands of Afghans included on a list of people trying to flee the Taliban are unlikely to receive compensation after their details were accidentally leaked. A spokesman for the…
More than 100 British government personnel exposed by Ministry of Defence data leak
More details continue to emerge about the Ministry of Defence data breach in 2022 that put thousands of Afghani people seeking relocation assistance and their family members at serious risk of Taliban reprisals. The breach occurred when an MoD employee mistakenly emailed a dataset with information on applicants to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy…
Gladney Adoption Center had serious data exposures in the past few months. What will they do to prevent more?
When Website Planet emailed me about an unencrypted and non-password-protected database containing 1,115,061 records with 2.49 GB of sensitive information from an adoption agency, the name Gladney Adoption Center rang a bell. I had seen that name before in the context of a data security incident. Reading the findings by Jeremiah Fowler, I was struck…
Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content
Zack Whittaker reports: Meta has fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view the private prompts and AI-generated responses of other users. Sandeep Hodkasia, the founder of security testing firm AppSecure, exclusively told TechCrunch that Meta paid him $10,000 in a bug bounty reward for privately disclosing the bug…
McDonald’s McHire leak involving ‘123456’ admin password exposes 64 million applicant chat records
Loraine Centeno reports: McDonald’s just got a supersized reminder to beef up its digital security after its recruitment platform allegedly exposed the sensitive data of 64 million applicants. Security researchers Ian Carrol and Sam Curry, known for their work in vulnerability investigations and ethical hacking, recently revealed a major flaw in McDonald’s new McHire recruitment…