The following is a press release issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that relates to a data security incident — a misconfiguration — discovered by MacKeeper researchers in 2016 that was previously noted on this site, including a subsequent settlement between DealerBuilt and the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. From the wording of the…
Category: Exposure
Russian Banks Leaked Personal Data From 900k Clients
Tanya Chepkova reports: Clients from the top three Russian banks entrusted their data — including phone numbers, addresses, and IDs — to the financial institutions. Now, this sensitive information is publicly available. Databases with sensitive personal information about the clients of the top Russian banks — including Alfa Bank, the country’s largest commercial bank —…
9.5 billion rows of email metadata leaked by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Justin Paine reports: While searching Shodan, I recently discovered an ElasticSearch database without any authentication. This database contained metadata related to a huge amount of emails. It was eventually confirmed that this server and the email metadata was controlled by a large university located in China. I would like to thank the university’s security team…
SG: Firm fined $4k by PDPC for leak of more than 400 national servicemen’s data
Lim Min Zhang reports: A firm has been fined $4,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog for the leak of the personal data of more than 400 national servicemen on June 12 last year due to a technical error. The data comprised the log-in identifications, e-mail addresses, delivery addresses and mobile phone numbers of 427 men from…
Report: Leak at Tech Data Corp. exposed 264GB of data — VPNMentor
VPNMentor reports that Tech Data Corporation sprung a major leak…. The research team at vpnMentor discovered a major data leak at the Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD), a Fortune 500 company providing tech products, services, and solutions globally. vpnMentor’s researchers, led by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, identified the consequential data breach that exposes…
U.S. finds American guilty in Singapore HIV data leak case
Reuters reports: A U.S. citizen who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been found guilty by a U.S. court of illegally transferring personal data and threatening the Singapore government, court filings show. Read more on Reuters.