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…
Category: Exposure
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…
Over 100,000 compromised ChatGPT accounts found for sale on dark web
Laura Dobberstein reports: Singapore-based threat intelligence outfit Group-IB has found ChatGPT credentials in more than 100,000 stealer logs traded on the dark web in the past year. The amount of stolen accounts steadily climbed from 74 in June 2022 to 26,902 in May 2023. April 2023 was an outlier – a moderate decline was seen…
Ie: Data breach at Public Appointments Service involving 15,000 people
Emmet Ryan reports: The personal information of 15,471 candidates for public roles has been released in error by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). A message was sent to the affected candidates through the publicjobs.ie portal notifying the candidates affected their names and jobs alert notifications they had subscribed to may have been provided to other…
Ie: Patients’ info accidentally sent to unidentified individual by UL Hospitals Group
Ben Scallan reports: UL Hospitals Group, responsible for managing six hospitals in the midwest region, announced a significant data breach resulting in the inadvertent sharing of personal and medical information belonging to over 1,000 patients with an unknown third party. The breach occurred in January when a staff member mistakenly sent the data to an…