Varun Haran reports: Data purportedly belonging to five South Asian banks was apparently posted online May 10 by the Turkish hacking group Bozkurtlar that recently also leaked data tied to Qatar National Bank and UAE’s InvestBank. The latest banks whose data has been posted online include the Dutch Bangla Bank, The City Bank and Trust Bank, all based…
Category: Exposure
Huge embarrassment over fisting site data breach
John Leyden reports: A data breach at a forum for “anal fisting” has resulted in the exposure of 107,000 accounts. More than a third (37 per cent) of those affected by the Rosebutt Board were already included in the Have I Been Pwned? site, according to security researcher Troy Hunt. Victims will be able to use Have I Been Pwned? to…
Personal information displayed to others on NY’s health exchange website
Kimberly Howard reports: The New York State Department of Health is responding to an issue with the state’s health exchange website that allowed users to see the private information of other people. One user, who did not want to speak on camera, sent CBS6 a screen grab of what he says he saw when he…
Children’s National Medical Center blames former transcription vendor for privacy breach
In March, 2015, the D.C.-based Children’s National Medical Center notified 18,000 patients of a breach that occurred between July 26, 2014 and December 26, 2014 after employees fell for phishing emails. In May, 2015, they were sued over that breach. Now, CNMC has disclosed another breach, this one involving a former vendor who provided medical transcription services. Their press…
Ca: Law firm considers launching class action suit against Algonquin College over privacy breach
In June, 2015, Algonquin College in Ottawa disclosed that 1,225 students in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs had their personal information on a server that had been accessed. The server compromise occurred in December, 2014, but the college was initially unable to determine exactly what happened. Now a Toronto law…
Personal information of hundreds of City of Houston employees exposed
Greg Picazo reports a City of Houston breach of current and former city employees’ information that will leave you muttering to yourself, “inexcusable:” The names, social security numbers and other financial information was stored in a locked filing cabinet sold by the city at auction in February. Bad enough already, right? How did they not…