Over on the Daily Dot this morning, I have a follow-up to my earlier report on an FBI raid on Justin Shafer. There was a lot of anger towards the FBI and Patterson Dental in response to the raid, and I pulled together some of my favorite comments or responses from around the Internet. But more importantly,…
Category: Exposure
Ca: Rexall hands out patient’s confidential health records to wrong person
CityNews reports: When Maureen Pittman picked up her prescription from a Mississauga Rexall, she didn’t expect to be bringing home another patient’s entire confidential medication history. [… The 6-page] medication history contains the patient’s name, address, phone number, Ontario Health Insurance number, what medications were prescribed and what they are generally used for. Once Pittman realized…
RU: Opposition PARNAS party cancels primaries over massive leak of voters’ personal data
Oh great – another voter database leak. RT reports: The Russian Party of People’s Freedom, PARNAS, has had to suspend its internet primaries after a file with personal details of all participants was placed on the party’s website. Top party officials blame unidentified hackers for the privacy breach. PARNAS was holding primaries in order to…
Danish Authorities Investigate OkCupid Incident
Joseph Cox reports the follow-up to a breach that I covered on PogoWasRight.org. The breach involved a Danish grad student dumping OkCupid users’ personal and sensitive info in a data set for “research” purposes, claiming it was “public” data. They had neither sought nor obtained consent to scrape the user database, and although they did not include…
Pacific Gas and Electric database exposed; Company claims data “fake”
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has reported on yet another misconfigured database. This one belongs to PG& E in California. Whether the database contains real data or not is something the Department of Homeland Security should investigate, as the company tells Chris the data are “fake,” and Chris does not believe them, partly because entities…
ZA: MTN exposing subscribers’ personal details online
When accessing their bills online, MTN clients are being shown the bills of other subscribers. This is according to a subscriber who told MyBroadband he was able to see thousands of bills that weren’t his own. He logged in as normal on MTN’s e-billing site, received a one-time PIN, and accessed the client portal – which…