Gareth Corfield reports: McDonald’s customers who won a prize draw competition got more than they hoped for after the burger chain emailed them login credentials for development and production databases used to power the campaign. The first person to report the blunder to McDonald’s, startup founder Connor Greig, told The Register: “It’s a bit weird,” adding…
Category: Exposure
SANSA breach: International hacker group claims responsibility for Space Agency leak
Storm Simpson reports: A new internet hacking group has claimed responsibility for a data breach at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The group, CoomingProject, emerged recently and according to claims made on its website, it has a list of victims across the world. Read more on The South African. SANSA confirmed the breach…
Texas Right to Life website exposed job applicants’ resumes
Zack Whittaker reports: Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life exposed the personal information of hundreds of job applicants after a website bug allowed anyone to access their resumes, which were stored in an unprotected directory on its website. A security researcher told TechCrunch that the group’s main website, built largely in WordPress, was not properly…
Credit unions demand assurances from Central Bank after data leak blunder
Charlie Weston reports: A leading credit union body is seeking assurances from the Central Bank that it can protect the personal data of people who have to register with it. The call from the Irish League of Credit Unions comes after the Central Bank mistakenly gave out the names and home addresses of credit union…
Private information of 2,841 students accidentally released; School division did not make proper notice — regulator
CBC reports: A recent report by the Saskatchewan information and privacy commissioner’s office revealed that private information of 2,841 students was accidentally made public last year. The records in question included students’ names, identification numbers, phone numbers, grades and parent email addresses. The school division, which is in southwest Saskatchewan and has more than 6,000…
700,000 French pharmacy Covid test results left publicly available
Ellie Fullalove reports (machine translation follows): A data leak involving an online platform used to transfer data from antigen tests carried out at pharmacies to the government platform SI-DEP has made 700,000 covid test results public, along with personal information. The platform known as Francetest was alerted to the bug in its system by the…