Wow. The August, 2015 report by the Veterans Administration to Congress is probably the best I’ve ever seen from them. Although they reported some incidents involving accidental disclosure from mis-mailings, etc., I don’t see even one incident affecting multiple individuals. Well done, VA!
Category: Exposure
Comcast penalized $33 million by PUC for privacy breach
George Avalos reports: State regulators on Thursday approved a $33 million settlement with Comcast in connection with an unauthorized disclosure of unlisted names, phone numbers and addresses of 75,000 of the telecommunications giant’s customers. The names, phone numbers and addresses of the unlisted and non-published customers became available on Comcast’s online director (sic), in one…
Kardashian Website Security Issue Exposes Names, Emails Of Over Half A Million Subscribers, Payment Info Safe
Sarah Perez reports: Alongside the launch of the Kardashian and Jenner mobile apps, which are now dominating the App Store after seeing hundreds of thousands of downloads apiece in their first days on the market, the celeb sisters also released new websites designed to help them better connect with their fans while offering a more personal look…
CORRECTIONS
A post describing a massive data leak/exposure incorrectly identified CSAC as one of the entities whose data were exposed. CSAC informs this site that it was CSAC-EIA, a separate organization. DataBreaches.net apologizes to CSAC for the error and has corrected the post. In that same story, York Insurance Group was also incorrectly listed as an affected…
Masses of Brit IT bods embroiled in leak riddle
John Leyden reports: Mystery surrounds the origin of a leak on Pastebin containing what looked like the full contact details on tech personnel at hundreds of UK organizations. The leaked document features names of people, the firms they worked for, email addresses, and phone numbers (mobile and landline). It surfaced on Sunday, and purported to…
Oops! Error by Systema Software exposes millions of records with insurance claims data and internal notes (Update3)
Insurance carriers, third party administrators (TPAs), and self-insureds had claims data exposed when a cloud-hosted claims management service inadvertently left their databases and files unprotected on a public server. Another week, another infosecurity failure that exposed oodles of personal information. This time, it’s a leak that not only exposed insurance claims data, but allegedly included internal documents that reveal how…