MacKeeper Security Research Center reports that PIP Printing and Marketing Services, a franchise of Franchise Services in California, was leaking data: The majority of 400+ GB server is dedicated to design files and images relating to the printing business. The most sensitive information is contained within the “Outlook archives” and “Scans” folders. These contain around…
Category: Exposure
Info of 200,000 Indycar race fans exposed in misconfigured backup
Chris Vickery writes: The online security of over 200,000 Indycar racing fans was put in jeopardy recently. Earlier this month I discovered a large collection of publicly exposed MySQL database backup files at an IP resolving to ims-mysql.indycar.com. The majority of these backups appear to be merely operational, but what stands out are the Indycar…
Doctor email breached patient privacy: Eastern Health says 122 patients involved
CBC News reports: Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine are advising of a privacy breach Monday after a doctor emailed researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients. According to the health authority, the physician — who was not named — shared the information with other researchers as a part of a grant application for…
Payroll service mistakenly ships packages with W-2 records to wrong address — twice
It’s worrying that once again, criminals are successfully tricking employees into emailing employees’ W-2 data to them. But how about when a company just mails out W-2’s to the wrong address – and not once, but twice? The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Paychex, a payroll service, has twice shipped scores of confidential salary records and other documents to…
Telemarketing Company Leaks Nearly 400K Consumer Files
MacKeeper’s Security Research Center reports: Researchers from the MacKeeper Security Research Center have made one of the biggest discoveries to date with several hundred thousand files publically available. The files belong to a controversial Florida based marketing company VICI Marketing LLC and include thousands of audio recordings where customers give their names, addresses, phone number,…
Ca: Break-in prompts hospital to assess possible patient privacy breach
George Mathewson and Troy Shantz report: Bluewater Health has contacted the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario about a potential breach of confidential patient information stemming from a break-in at the former Sarnia General Hospital site. […] On Jan. 18, Sarnia Police reported a 30-year-old woman had been arrested after allegedly exiting a taxi and leaving behind…