Suresh Kasinathan writes: Not all instances of data exposure in the cloud are the product of malicious intentions from either internal or external actors. In its “2019 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR), for instance, Verizon Enterprise showed that errors constituted one of the top causes in the data breaches it examined. Verizon’s researchers attributed 21%…
Category: Exposure
Canadian passengers from virus-stricken Zaandam cruise ship hit by federal gov’t privacy breach
Sophia Harris reports: After enduring a cruise with a COVID-19 outbreak and four deaths, the 247 Canadian passengers who were aboard the Holland America Line ship, the MS Zaandam, face a new problem: a privacy breach by the federal government. […] In a detailed email Global Affairs Canada sent Canadian passengers during the Easter holiday…
Maropost takes your privacy and security….
I confess: some data leaks are not particularly interesting to me in terms of their sector or type of data leaked, but they become noteworthy because of the entity’s horrible, terrible, ridiculously bad incident response to attempted notification. Today we give you Maropost Inc. a marketing automation platform whose 10,000+ clients include New York Post, Shopify,…
MT: DPC launches investigation after over 330,000 voters’ personal data leaked in security breach
Matthew Vella reports: The data protection commissioner will be launching an investigation after a massive security vulnerability – in a database containing information on 337,384 voters from Malta that was being held by a Maltese IT company – led it to be exposed without security. The data includes ID numbers, names, addresses, gender, phone numbers…
Virgin Media facing lawsuit over exposed database
It’s Wednesday, so law firms continue to try to round up clients for potential class action lawsuits by making big noises about how much money a company might be required to pay out. Emer Scully reports: Virgin Media could be forced to pay up to £4.5billion to customers whose personal data was published online –…
The UK Cabinet is meeting on Zoom… here’s the meeting ID
Yesterday, Graham Cluley wrote: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Twitter this afternoon that he was chairing the first ever digital Cabinet, while he self-isolated himself at Downing Street after revealing he was suffering “mild symptoms” of Coronavirus. Johnson included in the tweet a screenshot of his desktop, showing there were 35 participants on the Zoom…