On November 12, DataBreaches published an OpEd, If entities continue to obfuscate and lie, it’s time to mandate more transparency in breach disclosures. Today, we post another example of why we need to legislate and enforce data breach notification laws that prohibit deceptive statements and mandate more disclosure when data has been leaked. This week,…
Category: Exposure
States settle with Morgan Stanley for $6.5 million over data security incidents
In addition to Florida, represented by Consumer Protection Division Multistate and Privacy Bureau Chief Patrice Malloy and Senior Assistant Attorney General Diane Oates, the following states joined the action: Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York and Vermont. To view a copy of the agreement, click here. Source: MyFloridaLegal.com
NTMC database exposed personal info to open web: report
The Financial Express reports: The National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) in Bangladesh has exposed a database to the open web. The types of data that leaked online were extensive, American technology magazine WIRED reports. The list of data is long: names, professions, blood groups, parents’ names, phone numbers, the length of calls, vehicle registrations, passport…
We seldom see breach reports from Nebraska, so here are two.
When DataBreaches compiles statistics on health data breaches for Protenus’s annual Breach Barometer, Nebraska generally has fewer than 10 breaches per year. Seeing two reports in one brief period is a bit unusual. This week, DataBreaches found that West Central District Health Department (WCDHD) had disclosed some kind of hacking incident that occurred between May…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Wednesday edition
Millions of Highly Sensitive Patient Records Exposed in Medical Diagnostic Company Data Breach Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet about a non-password protected database that contained over 12 million records containing medical diagnostic scans, test results, and other potentially sensitive medical records. The database contained a massive amount of medical test results that included…
Ie: “Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach”
What is one headline writer’s “major IT breach” may be a blogger’s “data leak.” Adrian Weckler reports: The driving licences of thousands of motorists who had vehicles towed on behalf of the gardaí were left at the mercy of hackers in a major data breach, the Irish Independent can reveal. More than half a million documents exposed…