Kurt Erikson reports: A company offering virtual learning programs in Missouri “inadvertently” released student information as it worked the Capitol halls earlier this year in a bid to make it easier to expand its offerings. [,,,] In an Aug. 20 letter, Christopher Neale, assistant commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, said…
Category: Exposure
Twitter-Owned SDK Leaking Location Data of Millions of Users
Joseph Cox reports: A series of popular apps using an outdated piece of code owned by Twitter are exposing their users’ location data. In total, the apps have been downloaded nearly 10 million times. The news highlights the continued role of software development kits (SDKs), small bundles of code that developers often add to their…
Misconfigured cloud storage bucket exposed Pfizer drug safety-related reports — researchers
For lo, these many years, DataBreaches.net has been reminding everyone that not all leaks or breaches involving medical or sensitive personal health information are covered by HIPAA. Today’s story is a reminder of that. vpnMentor recently contacted DataBreaches.net about a leak their research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, had discovered. The leak…
620 applicants file joint case against IT firm which exposed voter data
Here’s a follow-up to a data leak incident that may have escaped our attention as the pandemic was absorbing a lot of attention and the news cycle in April: More than 620 claimants have come together to file a joint lawsuit against an IT firm which exposed personal data of more than 337,000 voters in…
HI: Potential data breach exposed in state’s travel exemption request system
HNN Staff report: The state is investigating a potential breach of data within one of their systems tied to the Attorney General’s office. Nearly 150 individuals who applied for a travel exemption through the state Attorney General’s website were notified Friday about the potential breach. It impacts applicants between Sept. 18 and Sept. 21. Read…
A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys
Zack Whittaker reports: Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work. But now the security and privacy of these systems are under scrutiny after one St Louis-based prison video visitation provider…