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 –…
Category: Exposure
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…
Campaign Gaffe: How a Voter Contact App Exposed Credentials and Code
UpGuard reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a code repository including exposed access credentials for Campaign Sidekick, a current voter contact, survey, and canvassing app used by Republican campaigns, has been secured. The code repository was within a “.git” directory which was configured for public access and hosted on Campaign Sidekick’s primary website. The directory contained…
First-Ever CCPA Cause of Action Filed in a Federal Court, but Is This Class Claim Short-Lived?
Cynthia J. Larose and Natalie Prescott of Mintz discuss a lawsuit previously noted on this site: Fuentes v. Sunshine Behavioral Health Group, LLC. The lawsuit followed a data leak of PHI due to a misconfiguration of a database. The leak was first reported by DataBreaches.net who had alerted the entity to their leak. I’m going…
Ca: Toronto residents’ data improperly shared with councillor’s office in privacy breach
David Rider reports: More than 7,000 Torontonians are being told their personal information was improperly disclosed to a city councillors’ office, the Star has learned. In a March 17 letter to 7,227 people in a program for senior citizens and disabled people who receive free sidewalk snow clearing, Vincent Sferrazza, a city transportation director, tells…
Report: unidentified database exposes 200 million Americans
The CyberNews research team reports: The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information.The database in question was left on a publicly accessible server and contained more than 200 million detailed user records, putting an astonishing number of people at risk. On March 3, 2020, the…