Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Category: Exposure
Indiana Medicaid patients warned of possible data breach
Kara Kenney reports: If you’re a Medicaid member in Indiana, you could be receiving a letter about a possible data breach involving your personal information. According to DXC Technology, the fiscal agent for the Indiana Health Coverage Program (IHCP), an internet hyperlink containing patient information was potentially accessible between February and May of 2017. The…
Some Erie County OCY cases part of statewide data breach
Kevin Flowers has more on a breach recently noted on this site: Officials with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth said that fewer than 30 Erie County children had their identities compromised as part of a recent data security breach involving a third-party vendor that affected approximately 1,800 child welfare cases statewide. The…
Medical billing firm exposes unencrypted protected health information
Last month, DataBreaches.net was contacted by Kromtech Security’s research team and asked to assist it in alerting a medical billing firm that they were exposing patients’ personal and protected health information on their backup server. On June 12, DataBreaches.net sent iMax Medical Billing in Ohio a message and left them a voice mail, alerting them…
The AA Exposed Emails, Credit Card Data, and Didn’t Inform Customers
Joseph Cox reports: Last week rumours of a potentially serious data breach at UK car insurance company the AA circulated in the security research community. In response, the AA’s customer support Twitter account downplayed those fears, and told users that their data remained secure. However, an exposed server contained sensitive information on over 100,000 AA…
Minister Acknowledges Sunshine List Privacy Breach
An investigation is underway into an apparent privacy breach that occurred yesterday, as government released its Sunshine List for 2016. The report lists all employees in government and government agencies, boards and commissions who made more than $100,000 dollars last year. 43 employees were granted exemptions from the list, to protect their safety, mental or…