Bianka Farmakis reports: Online events promotions company Get has apologised for potentially exposing the names, phone numbers and email addresses of up to 50,000 Australian university students in a data breach. Read more on 9News.
Category: Exposure
UK: Warning issued in Home Group data threat
Gareth Cavanagh reports: Customers’ private details have potentially been compromised after a housing group suffered a data leak. Home Group, which has properties across the county, contacted some customers to warn them that their data was affected. Read more on Time and Star.
Leaky Autoclerk database exposes info on travelers, including military and gov’t personnel
Teri Robinson reports: A leak at Autoclerk, a reservations management system recently acquired by the Western Hotel & Resorts Group, exposed personal and travel information on hotel guests, including members of the U.S. government, military and Department of Homeland Security. […] Even after contacting the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) on Sept. 13…
Everything’s broken, Monday edition (medical data leaks)
It seems that every week I hear from researchers who find patient data or medical data exposed. And I know some of them spend inordinate amounts of time trying to contact entities to get them to secure their unsecured sensitive data. Some of these researchers do this for no pay and no expectation or hope…
Mercedes-Benz app glitch exposed car owners’ information to other users
Zack Whittaker reports: Mercedes-Benz car owners have said that the app they used to remotely locate, unlock and start their cars was displaying other people’s account and vehicle information. TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to…
Recruitment Sites Exposes 250,000 Resumes Online
CISO Mag reports: Around 250,000 American and British-based job seekers’ personal information has been exposed after two recruiting sites misconfigured their databases. The exposed information included candidates’ names, addresses, contact information, and work experience. The data leak occurred when recruitment sites Authentic Jobs and Sonic Jobs failed to set their cloud storage as private. Read…