As reported by vx-underground on Telegram: Tigo, a live video and chatting app for Android and iPhone, accidentally exposed 100,000,000+ user messages online. The app is mostly known for dating & for dudes being thirsty. vx-underground provided the following screencaps as proof, which they credit to Silas Cutler: Tigo is described on Google…
Category: Exposure
Over 100 fertility patients had data breached by N.L. Health Services
CBC News reports: When Kelsey Puddister-Collins opened an email from Newfoundland and Labrador Fertility Services on Tuesday, she said she was mortified to see the names and email addresses of over 100 people on the email list. Puddister-Collins’ information was among those shared in a data breach. The email was a survey about her experience in…
Jpn: Notice of apology: Email containing current student information mistakenly sent to currently enrolled students
Email errors are still a thing. Here’s an apology by Tokyo Tech to 10,000 of its currently enrolled students: A file containing personal information of currently enrolled Tokyo Tech students was attached mistakenly to an email sent on the afternoon of June 28 to presently enrolled regular-course students. The email in question was an announcement…
2,632 Medicaid members in Arizona being notified of data leak
A systems error involving the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) resulted in 2,632 Health-e-Arizona Plus household accounts having their data accidentally exposed to others accessing the website. The breach was discovered on May 11, but had occurred earlier in the year. Name, addresses, and the last four digits of social security numbers were exposed…
Confused about the drama with the new BreachForums? Reading this will either help you or make your head spin.
[Please see corrections at end of post.] Over the past week, DataBreaches has been contacted by a few journalists who have been somewhat understandably confused about the situation with the original BreachForums and a new forum calling itself BreachForums. And from reading news reports this week, I see that some journalists are making errors, so…
Two apprehended in CoWin portal data leak case
IANS reports: In a major breakthrough, the Delhi Police Special Cell has apprehended a man and a juvenile from Bihar in connection with the alleged data leak from the CoWin portal, the Centre’s official platform for Covid-19 vaccination registration and certification. According to police sources, the adult man, whose identity has been withheld pending further…