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…
Category: Exposure
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…
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…