Robson Fletcher reports: Personal information belonging to more than 17,000 users of the private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass is still unsecured and visible online — including, in some cases, photos of drivers’ licences and passports — despite assurances from the company that its data-security problems have been fixed. The Calgary-based smartphone app was temporarily taken offline in late September…
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UK: Tesco worker compensated after supermarket lost 15 years of her medical records
Tristan Cork reports: A woman from Bristol has been awarded £3,000 in compensation after discovering Tesco had lost 15 years of her employment records, including sensitive medical information. Jacqueline Ogborne worked for the supermarket chain for 30 years but said the data breach left her ‘feeling violated’. The 55-year-old only discovered Tesco had lost her employment…
Minnesota Man Charged With Computer Intrusion And Illegally Streaming Content From Four Major Professional Sports Leagues
Defendant Also Attempted to Extort Approximately $150,000 From Major League Baseball Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that JOSHUA STREIT, a/k/a “Josh Brody,” was charged with conducting intrusions…
Over 400,000 German Students Data Leaked by a Flawed API
Manikanta Immann reports: Scoolio is a german app for students, used mainly for educational updates, record keeping, and networking. After informing the flaw to Scoolio’s developer, a fix was released this week to patch the bug. […] In September, a security researcher named Lilith Wittmann of Zerforchung firm has discovered a flawed API in Scoolio, through which she was able…
Another law firm gets hit….. and yes, medical info was in its files
Today’s reminder that law firms have a wealth of personal, sensitive, and medically related info that is often not covered by HIPAA. Coughlin & Cerhart (C&G) law firm in New York experienced a security breach in early April. It is not clear from their press release whether this was a ransomware attack or not, and…
Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers and employees, the necessary steps to counteract the attack were taken immediately after the attack became known, the company said. Read more on SR.de.