Zack Whittaker covers a data leak first reported by BleepingComputer. You can read TechCrunch’s report on the incident here.
Category: Exposure
UK Reputation Risk Intelligence Company Left 30TB Server Exposed
WizCase researchers recently revealed that a U.K. analytics firm, Polecat, left 30TB of data and billions of records exposed on an elasticsearch server that was not secured. WizCase reports: Polecat, which successfully predicted the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election, had potentially conducted a similar set of research less than a week before the…
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows
Jason Wilson reports: A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents. But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad…
Some San Diegans’ personal information provided to Jewish Family Service exposed online
Morgan Cook reports: Jewish Family Service of San Diego, a prominent nonprofit aid organization, exposed thousands of messages, some with identifying information from people seeking help with everything from paying rent to escaping abusive relationships. The social-services charity, which helps people in crisis regardless of their faith, learned of the data breach Monday night, after…
Dozens of institutional abuse victims to sue over data breach
Claire Simpson reports an update to an email gaffe breach that I had characterized as one of the worst breaches in 2020. I had been somewhat surprised to later read that four out of five victims groups were backing Brendan McAllister. I am not surprised that at least some of those exposed by the breach…
Over 8 million COVID-19 test results leaked online
Ax Sharma reports: … Last month, BleepingComputer exclusively reported that multiple Indian government websites were leaking COVID-19 patient test reports. This week, security researcher Sourajeet Majumder has shared with BleepingComputer his discovery of another government website exposing millions of COVID-19 test results. Read more on BleepingComputer.