GETTR, a social media platform similar to Twitter but frequented by people who don’t feel welcome on Twitter, officially launched on July 4th, 2021. It may be hard to remember what came first — the official launch of the platform run by former President Trump’s ex-spokesman Jason Miller or its first data breach, which was…
Category: Exposure
FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
Ben Feuerherd reports: A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing. The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter…
NL: Data leak at Radboudumc hospital was caused by former employee
This is a Google translation of a story in Dutch: The data breach at Radboudumc in Nijmegen is due to a former employee, the hospital reports in an update . Due to the leak, the data of an unknown number of employees is on the street. The hospital discovered the data breach earlier this month. Names, login names, email addresses and…
Internal emails raise questions about government’s investigation into Walgreens privacy breach
I am so glad to see a follow-up on this case because I had the same questions about how and why Walgreens did not suffer the same federal penalties as CVS and Rite Aid for the same infringement of HIPAA. My original coverage of this breach is no longer online as the former version of…
By Design: How Default Permissions on Microsoft Power Apps Exposed Millions
The UpGuard Team writes: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose multiple data leaks resulting from Microsoft Power Apps portals configured to allow public access – a new vector of data exposure. The types of data varied between portals, including personal information used for COVID-19 contact tracing, COVID-19 vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants, employee…
Chico State Students React to COVID-10 Vaccination Data Breach
Carmela Karcher reports: A data breach at Chico State University exposed the personal information of students who requested COVID-19 vaccination religious exemptions. According to the Associated Press, the information was posted on an anonymous internet message board and leaked records for about 130 students. Read more on CBS12. It’s not clear how this data got…