Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…
Category: Exposure
Impacts of Department of Health data breach remain unknown
CJ Baker reports: The Wyoming Department of Health knows it accidentally published the personal information of 164,000 residents on a public website earlier this year. But it remains a mystery as to whether any bad actors accessed the data before the department discovered the mistake and took the files offline. The roughly 54 files that…
Volkswagen says a vendor’s security lapse exposed 3.3 million drivers’ details
Zack Whittaker reports: Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet. The car maker said in a letter that the vendor, used by Volkswagen, its subsidiary Audi and authorized dealers in the U.S. and Canada, left the customer data…
Lisbon admits sharing Russian dissidents’ personal data with Moscow
Aitor Hernandez-Morales reports: Lisbon Mayor Fernando Medina is facing calls for his resignation as a result of his government’s decision to share the personal information of at least three Lisbon-based Russian dissidents with Russian authorities. Municipal authorities obtained the personal data when the dissidents applied to hold a rally to protest the arrest of Russian…
N.J. school worker accidentally leaked Social Security numbers of staff to public
Anthony G. Attrino reports: Hundreds of employees in the Leonia School District in Bergen County were exposed to a data breach last month when an office worker inadvertently linked their personal information to an online meeting agenda. The Social Security numbers of about 300 teachers, custodians and administrators were exposed to the public for four…
GA: Hundreds of peoples’ medical records from Hope Medical found along a road
Justin Gray reports: Medical records for hundreds of patients were found dumped along the side of a road in South Fulton County. Channel 2 Action News has learned that those records contained everything from Social Security numbers to private medical information. Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray tracked down where the records came from. Hope Medical told…