Updates: See this post and this article for debunking that these are new leaks. Julie Bort reports: The hacker group known as Anonymous released a file on Friday containing about 13,000 passwords, it claims. […] But these accounts come from a variety of online sources, the Anonymous claims, some of them really popular. DailyDot’s Aaron Sankin sifted…
Category: Exposure
Leak of online ticketing data sparks off panic in China
ZeeNews reports: Beijing: A leak of personal information from online train ticket sales ahead of the busiest travel season of the year has spurred public outcry in China over internet vulnerability. The leaked information includes usernames, passwords, emails and a trove of personal data used for buying tickets on the official ticket-selling website of China Railway Corporation (CRC). CRC…
Incident Summary #4: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email
Posted yesterday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email Incident A customer of a service provider received a routine email from the service provider advising her of when her seasonal service would be reconnected. However, she noticed that the email…
Quest Diagnostics notifies employees of breach after email attachment error (UPDATE)
Quest Diagnostics is notifying some employees that some of their personal information was inadvertently attached to an email sent outside the company. The email gaffe occurred on November 17, when a report containing employee information was attached to an email sent to two individuals with whom the firm has a business relationship. The error was reported…
UK: Huge data leak sees personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents published online
Fiona Parker reports: A massive blunder has seen the sensitive personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents – including address, sexuality and rent accounts – leaked online. Bungling council officers have also revealed the age and housing benefit entitlement of Hackney Homes tenants and leaseholders in the botched Freedom of Information request, which was inadvertently published…
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed”
Colleen Taylor reports: Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive Sony Pictures hack exposed a number of Snapchat’s company secrets. On Tuesday afternoon, the hacker group that calls itself the “Guardians of Peace” released the contents of the email inbox of Sony…