Aaron Raj reports: Another day, another data leak report in Malaysia. Data leaks and breaches are becoming so rampant in Malaysia that there is news about them almost every week in the local media. Now, almost a million customers have had their data leaked in what may be an industry-impacting incident. According to a report by…
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India’s farmers exposed by new Aadhaar data leak
Zack Whittaker reports: A security researcher said an Indian government website was exposing the Aadhaar numbers of India’s farmers, potentially amounting to millions of people. Atul Nair told TechCrunch that he found a part of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website that was revealing the farmers’ information. PM-Kisan, as the agency is better known, is an…
Choice Health Insurance notifying people after vendor error resulted in a data breach
On June 8, Choice Health Insurance began notifying people of a data breach caused by human error. According to their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, they learned on May 14 that an unauthorized person was “offering to make available data allegedly taken from Choice Health.” In actuality, on May 9, the data had…
Leaking Student Data From US Campus App Found — But is It Real?
Another day, another leak. Another leak, another entity claiming it’s not real data. Another leak, another frustrating experience trying to responsibly disclose. According to Safety Detectives, they found exposed data related to an app called Transact Campus: Transact Campus’ technology integrates several payment functions into a single mobile platform to power student purchases at higher…
AU: Researcher finds ACY Securities leaking 60 GB of User Data
ACY Securities describes itself as one of Australia’s fastest growing multi-asset online CFD trading providers. But as first reported by HackRead, the trading firm was leaking 60 GB of user data until independent researcher Anurag Sen persisted in trying to alert them to a misconfigured elasticsearch database. As seen by Hackread, the data included personally…
Icare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers
Lucy Cormack reports: The personal details of almost 200,000 injured workers were mistakenly shared with 587 employers and insurance brokers in a major privacy data breach by embattled state insurer icare last month. A senior source with direct knowledge of the breach said the details of 193,000 employees were contained in spreadsheets that were mistakenly…