Michael Kan reports: The organizer behind the E3 gaming convention has messed up bad by accidentally leaking the contact information to more than 2,000 journalists who attended the show this year. For some reason, E3’s public website featured a link to a spreadsheet containing the sensitive information, which includes email addresses, addresses and phone numbers…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Patient horrified after medical information left at curb outside London walk-in clini
Andrew Lupton reports: Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner is investigating after a clear plastic bag containing documents with patient names and medication information was left at the curb outside a London walk-in clinic. One patient whose information was in the bag said she’s furious the papers weren’t shredded. Read more on CBC.
Up to Ten Thousand Customers Possibly Affected in Aegon Life Insurance Data Leak
Anuj Srivas reports: New Delhi: The personal data of up to 10,000 customers of Aegon Life Insurance customers may have been exposed publicly due to a security vulnerability on the company’s website. The data that was exposed included everything from basic demographic information – such as name, age, gender, mobile phone numbers – to more…
Data Leak Exposes Personal ID’s of Over 14 Million Chilean Citizens
Chase Williams reports: WizCase has discovered a database leak that contains identifiable information for over 14 million Chilean residents, aged 17+. The 3 GB database was hosted by Softlayer Technologies in Dallas, Texas, USA, but they are not responsible for the leak. What’s Going On Daniel Brown, a cybersecurity team leader at WizCase and white-hat…
More Than 4 Billions of Record Exposed from an Unknown Elastic Search Database
Leon writes: In March 2019, I found an unsecured Elasticsearch database which contains more than 4 billion records. The database was sensitive as it contains a lot of PII details as well as Geo-Coordinates of the vehicles meaning the location of the transportation vehicle is tracked and seems to be of an unknown company which…
A misconfigured AWS bucket exposed personal and counseling logs of almost 300,000 Indian employees
On July 17, this site reported on a leak by a vendor, Medico, Inc., that exposed 300,000 patients’ insurance billing-related records. Today, we report on another leak – this one by another vendor – that also exposed about 300,000 records. As part of their benefits offerings, companies often offer services to their employees to help…