Financial Advisor IQ reports: Some financial advisors using Redtail Technology’s client relationship management software may have had their clients’ personal data exposed on the internet, according to news reports. Redtail told affected advisors in an email that it learned on March 4 about a data breach that led to its logging systems capturing some investor…
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TX: HHS joins medical records dump investigation
Jacob Rascon reports: With the help of Tomball Police, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights is investigating the illegal dumping of thousands of medical records. The more than 20 boxes of records belonged to former Today’s Vision patients and employees, including their Social Security numbers. Read more on…
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in unhashed form for 14 years
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Google today revealed that a bug in an old G Suite tool has resulted in the company storing customer passwords in an unhashed — but encrypted — form for nearly 14 years, between 2005 and 2019. The company said that only G Suite enterprise customers were impacted, but not regular Gmail accounts….
Open Enrollment: How HCL Exposed Employee Passwords and Project Data
UpGuard reports: In the course of performing data leaks investigation on behalf of an UpGuard client, a member of the UpGuard Data Breach Research team discovered publicly accessible information belonging to technology services provider HCL. The public data included personal information and plaintext passwords for new hires, reports on installations of customer infrastructure, and web…
Millions of Instagram influencers had their private contact data scraped and exposed
Zack Whittaker reports: A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside. At the time of writing, the database had over 49 million records — but…
Unsecured Survey Database Exposes Info of 8 Million People
Lawrence Abrams reports: An unsecured database has exposed the personal information of 8 million people from the U.S. who participated in online surveys, sweepstakes, and requests for free product samples. […] Sanyam Jain, an independent security researcher and member of the GDI Foundation, discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database that exposed the personal information of 8 million people who…