Ben Butler reports: The federal court has launched a snap investigation of how it potentially broke the law an estimated 400 times by revealing the names of asylum seekers on a public website. John McMillan, a senior lawyer, former commonwealth ombudsman, privacy commissioner and inspector general of intelligence, is conducting a review into how the…
Category: Exposure
Digital Ocean says it exposed customer data after it left an internal document online
Catalin Cimpanu reported this on May 8: Web hosting provider Digital Ocean is currently in the process of notifying some customers about a security lapse that exposed some of their account details. According to an email the company is currently sending out, the security leak occurred due to an internal Digital Ocean document that was…
Ohio medical center notifies patients after online spread sheet exposed protected health information
The following is a press release. A substitute notice also appears on the entity’s website. May 6 — Ashtabula County Medical Center (“ACMC”) announced today that it has become aware that it inadvertently exposed the health information of a limited number of patients to the public in January, 2020. ACMC learned of this problem in…
Aarogya Setu: The story of a failure
Elliot Alderson (pseudonym) writes: In order to fight Covid19, the Indian government released a mobile contact tracing application called Aarogya Setu. This application is available on the PlayStore and 90 million Indians already installed it. This application is currently getting a lot of attention in India. In Noida, if people doesn’t have the app installed…
Leak Of Pune Municipal Corporation Data Spreads Personal Details Of Patients Over Social Media
Prachee Kulkarni reports: Names, locations, contact numbers, medical history — it’s all part of the Google Maps link created by Smart City officials, which was accessed by the public. Civic officials surprisingly casual about breach, say they will ‘consider’ going to the cops Read more on Pune Mirror.
Data from Hundreds of Law Firms Left Exposed on Old Database, Report Says
Simon Lock reports: Detailed and potentially sensitive information uploaded by firms including Clifford Chance, Slaughter and May, Weil Gotshal & Manges and White & Case was left “exposed” on an open database platform, according to a report by a cybersecurity firm. The cache of data, which included Companies House forms, partial security authentication details, business email addresses…