Zack Whittaker reports: A spyware app designed to “monitor everything” on a victim’s phone has been secretly installed on thousands of phones. The app, KidsGuard, claims it can “access all the information” on a target device, including its real-time location, text messages, browser history, access to its photos, videos and app activities, and recordings of phone…
Category: Exposure
University of Washington Medicine patients file class action lawsuit over December 2018 leak
Amy Clancy has an update on a University of Washington Medicine breach that was disclosed in February 2019. The breach was a human error incident that resulted in more than 970,000 patients having their information exposed online for several weeks. Clancy reports that the breach has now led to a class-action lawsuit that could eventually…
Information about 69,000 Phoenix pay system victims sent in error
Catharine Tunney reports: More than 69,000 public servants caught up in the Phoenix pay system debacle are now victims of a privacy breach after their personal information was accidentally emailed to the wrong people, says Public Services and Procurement Canada. The problem-plagued electronic payroll system has improperly paid tens of thousands of public servants since its launch…
Plastic Surgery Patient Photos, Info Exposed by Leaky Database
I’ve reported on a number of hacks and leaks involving plastic surgery centers where nude photos of identifiable patients wind up exposed or in bad actors’ hands. Sergiu Gatlan reports on yet another leak. This one exposed hundreds of thousands of documents in a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket owned by NextMotion, a French plastic…
Patients records from Craigavon Area Hospital found on public road
Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child: The patient records relate to a date in January and refer to 18 named…
Why, oh why, don’t some entities respond to notifications about leaking patient data, Wednesday edition
Since the summer of 2019, this site has occasionally reported on findings by WizCase researchers, such as our report in October on multiple entities that they had discovered leaking medical or health data. Today, WizCase reported on three more leaks that they discovered leaking patient data. They shared their findings exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The first…