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Misconfigured AWS Bucket Exposes Hundreds of Social Influencers

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports: A misconfigured cloud storage bucket has exposed the personal details of hundreds of social media influencers, potentially putting them at risk of fraud and harassment, according to researchers. A team at vpnMentor discovered the AWS S3 bucket wide open with no encryption or password protection, back in early November. Action has apparently…

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Vn: Leaky Server Exposes 12 Million Medical Records to Meow Attacker

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports: A healthcare technology company leaked 12 million records on patients including highly sensitive diagnoses, before the exposed cloud server was struck by the infamous “meow” attacker, researchers have revealed. A team at SafetyDetectives led by Anurag Sen discovered the leaky Elasticsearch server in late October after a routine IP address scan, although…

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UK: Pensions firm NOW tells some customers a ‘service partner’ leaked their data all over ‘public software forum’

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Dissent

Matthew Hughes reports: Workplace pension provider NOW: Pensions has emailed a number of UK customers to warn about a data leakage caused by contractor error. The email, seen by this publication, claims a service provider “unintentionally” posted user data to an unnamed “public software forum”. These records include biographical data (names, email addresses, and dates…

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TennCare announces privacy breach impacting 3,300 members

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Dissent

WKRN reports: TennCare, Gainwell Technologies LLC, and Axis Direct, Inc. announced a privacy breach impacting certain TennCare members in a joint statement on Monday. According to the statement, around 3,300 Medicaid members in the state of Tennessee have been notified of a privacy issue that may have impacted their health information. Gainwell, which runs the…

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Unsecured Azure blob exposed 500,000+ highly confidential docs from UK firm’s CRM customers

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Dissent

Gareth Corfield reports:  A business app developer’s unsecured Microsoft Azure blob left more than half a million confidential and sensitive documents belonging to its customers freely exposed to the public internet, The Register can reveal. Information contained in the blob included occupational health assessments, insurance claim documents from US firms underwritten by Lloyds of London, and…

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IN: Telangana Government Site Flaw Exposed Sensitive Data of All Its Employees, Pensioners; Fixed Only After Three Months

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Dissent

Jagmeet Singh reports: Telangana state government took over three months to protect sensitive details of its employees and pensioners from its website. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) confirmed the vulnerability and replied on email in September to say that the authorities had been intimated about the issue, and Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan…

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