CBC News reports: An investigation into an information leak on the City of Corner Brook’s website is in the hands of the province’s privacy commissioner. An analyst with the provincial office is looking into the report of the breach, and will help determine what the next steps will be for the city. Read more on…
Category: Exposure
“Real People,” real data leak: Production company leak exposed personal data of Dove ‘real people’ ad participants
Lucy Ingham reports: A data breach at UK-based Fresh Film Productions, which makes adverts for high-profile companies including Unilever, has exposed sensitive personal data of participants in antiperspirant brand Dove’s ‘real people’ campaign. The company inadvertently exposed the data, which included bank details and passport scans, by leaving a company server hosted online on an…
49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads put up for sale online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker is currently selling a huge database of 49 million business contacts on a underground hacking forum, ZDNet has learned. The hacker claims the data belongs to LimeLeads, a San Francisco-based business-to-business (B2B) leads generator, which +makes its money by renting access to an internal database containing business contacts that can be…
Smart cities with not-so-smart security — again!
Smart cities are a very hot topic these days as we have seen reports of facial detection and state surveillance in China as well as other Asian countries and Ecuador. Recently we have also seen news about an Alibaba-owned project called City Brain that has advanced video and processing ability for facial detection, real-time information…
Baby’s First Data Breach: App Exposes Baby Photos, Videos
Jeremy Kirk reports on a data leak: Picture this: A short video features a bundled baby, snoring gently, who flashes a couple of involuntary, sleepy smiles as someone sings a lullaby. Unfortunately, that video is one of what appear to be thousands of baby videos and images that are being left unsecured and exposed to…
London: New data leak exposes owners of 400,000 anonymous companies
Richard L. Cassin reports: Millions of documents leaked from a corporate services firm with a posh London address are helping journalists unmask owners of secret offshore companies and the alleged criminal activities of some of those owners. The information about the secret companies was leaked from Formations House. The firm does business from a front…