Caroline Haskins reports: Trust Stamp, a government contractor that develops facial recognition and surveillance tools for agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, left the personal information of several dozen people unsecured on a breached database, Insider has learned. This information included names, birthdays, home addresses, and driver’s license data. An anonymous tipster who said they…
Category: Exposure
Texas Department of Insurance leak went undetected for three years — state audit
On April 5, DataBreaches reported: And then there’s the Texas Department of Insurance. They informed the Texas Attorney General’s office that 1,800,000 Texas were affected by a leak involving names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, parts or all of Social Security numbers, and information about injuries and workers’ compensation claims. Anyone who had claim…
UK: Central Bedfordshire Council leaked special educational needs students’ personal details
It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information. First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of special educational need (SEND) pupils. The council leaked the details when responding to a Freedom of Information (FOI)…
UK: Cornwall Council Data Breach
The Cornwall council accidentally published the personal details of five schoolchildren in publicly accessible meeting documents. Cornwall Council has apologized for the data breach, including their names, addresses, and dates of birth. It made the error when it published online documents for a meeting of its School Transport Appeals Committee. Source: InformationSecurityBuzz.
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Cincinnati inadvertently posted employees’ personal data online
Dan Horn reports: Personal information for more than 2,000 current and former Cincinnati city employees appeared online for almost two weeks in April because of a mistake, city officials said Friday. The employee data includes names, addresses, insurance information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. Read more at Cincinnati.com
Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users’ Precise Locations
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stalk users, according to a researcher. […] In April, David Teather, a computer science student, analyzed…