Elle Yap reports: A new leak from a Cuban digital platform on Wednesday released figures of the country’s international currency reserves, finding them significantly decreased since 2019, putting the country’s ability to pay its debts in question. CubaDebate, a digital media platform released a 2,000-word analysis of the country’s economy recently from former economy minister José…
Category: Exposure
Private health data breach in Isle of Man to be dealt within 3 months, officials say
Seen on diabetes.co.uk: An organisation set up to focus on the delivery of health and social care on the Isle of Man has been given a three-month deadline to stop data breaches. Manx Care will be ordered to pay £170,000 if they fail to prevent breaches of people’s private data within the next three months….
TSA ‘no fly’ list leaked after being found on unsecured airline server
Chris Pandolfo reports: The Swiss hacker known as “maia arson crimew” blogged Thursday that she discovered the Transportation Security Administration “no fly” list from 2019 and a trove of data belonging to CommuteAir on an unsecured Amazon Web Services cloud server used by the airline. The hacker told The Daily Dot the list appeared to have more…
WA: Pierce County accidentally shared SSN info linked to hundreds of thousands of voters
Shea Johnson reports: Pierce County inadvertently shared the last four Social Security digits for more than 463,000 registered voters in response to a public records request, spokeswoman Libby Catalinich said Wednesday. The sensitive information was sent by mistake last month to one person who sought public voter registration records from the county, Catalinich told The…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
CR: Ministry of Public Works and Transportation Hit by Ransomware Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) has been the target of a ransomware attack by as yet unidentified individuals. The attack was reported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) (machine translation): Since early hours of this Tuesday, the…
ICE releases thousands of immigrants affected by data breach
Hamed Aleaziz reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released nearly 3,000 immigrants whose personal information, including birth dates and detention locations, was inadvertently posted on the internet by the U.S. government, according to government officials. Officials accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and detention locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to…