Asian Correspondent reports: Another data leak involving foreigners in Thailand has apparently been uncovered barely a week after sensitive personal information of foreigners living in the country’s southern provinces was revealed to have been to be hidden in plain sight. This time the details of the foreign travelers, including their most recent vaccine shots, real names, nationalities, passport…
Category: Exposure
Chinese Browsers Leave Users Vulnerable, Report Says
Dow Jones Business reports: China’s top three Web browsers collected and transmitted data in insecure ways, making hundreds of millions of users’ personal information vulnerable to unauthorized access, according to a human-rights research group. In a report published Tuesday, the University of Toronto’sCitizen Lab said Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s QQ Browser had been transmitting users’ data…
GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information
WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
Update to #InvestBank hack?
I had reported on a hack and extortion demand involving InvestBank back in November and December of 2015. The bank hadn’t paid the extortion demand by “Hacker Buba” and massive amounts of data had been dumped. This week, there was an update to the incident. I’m not sure what to make of it, but a…
Ca: UBC release of uncensored personal information an ‘honest mistake’: report
Gemma Karstens-Smith of CBC News reports: The release of uncensored details about the departure of a former University of British Columbia president was an honest mistake, says a new report. Former B.C. information and privacy commissioner David Loukidelis reviewed the university’s conduct and policies after hidden attachments containing uncensored personal details about Arvind Gupta’s abrupt…
PH: Voter database leaked by hackers (updated)
Rappler reports: Shortly after Anonymous PH defaced the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website, another group accessed the data of the poll body’s website, posting it publicly online. In a Facebook post before midnight Monday, March 28, a group calling itself LulzSec Pilipinas wrote, “A great lol to Commission on Elections, here’s your whoooooole database.” This appears…