First, we have this “human error” mistake with email to report today. Hamish McNeilly reports: An email containing the names of vulnerable children was mistakenly sent to other parents and guardians, prompting an apology from Te Whatu Ora Southern. Dozens of parents and guardians received the email on Tuesday from the Vera Haywood Centre, a…
Category: Exposure
No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking.. and Leaking… and Leaking…
Today’s “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking” episode is actually an update on a leak where DataBreaches did not name the entity at the time because the leak had not been secured. It still hasn’t been secured. Now the entity is reportedly attempting to tell the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that…
No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking, Monday edition: Dating App That Claims 50 Million Users Suffered a Data Breach
Jeremiah Fowler writes: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained approximately 2.3 million records. Upon further investigation, it became clear that these records were associated with multiple dating applications contained in a single database. A majority of the records referred to an application called 419 Dating – Chat…
UK: Sex abuse victim’s details could be among hundreds revealed by data breach
Bradley Jolly reports: A sex abuse survivor is one of “around 400” victims of a “chilling” data breach, it tonight has emerged. The London Mayor’s Office blunder, currently under investigation, involves complaints about policing in the capital being made wrongly accessible via an official website. The survivor of sexual abuse has described her distress tonight. The probe centres…
FTC investigates OpenAI over data leak and ChatGPT’s inaccuracy
Cat Zakrzewski reports: The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk. The agency this week sent the San Francisco company a 20-page demand for records about how it…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Translation service leaked 25k records
Jeremiah Fowler reports finding a non-secured database with more than 25,000 records, many with sensitive information: The unsecured database contained internal screenshots of source code as well as customer documents that were stored in uploads folders. These documents include: US Federal and State tax filings, passports, driver licenses, birth and marriage records, business documents, denied…