Sean O’Neill reports: A computer expert discovered a vulnerability in one of the systems used by travel distribution company Amadeus, which said it had fixed the issue and that none of the data was misused. Alp, an Israel-based travel subsidiary, is an online service used by Israeli travel agents and governmental travel agency Inbal to…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Some Brampton Residents Affected by Serious Privacy Breach
Rajpreet Sahota reports: Some Brampton residents have had their private information leaked in the wake of a privacy breach, the Region of Peel says. The Region of Peel announced that there was a breach of personal information on June 8, 2018. On March 13, the personal information of approximately 13,000 individuals on a wait list for Regional services…
Redtail CRM Data Breach May Have Exposed FA Client Info
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…
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…