Medolenuo Ambrocia reports: Kohima: A major data breach in the government of Nagaland website to help citizens stranded outside the state has led to personal details of these individuals being exposed. Personal information including bank account details, AADHAAR number, phone numbers, address etc have been leaked into the public domain. This is serious as this private…
Category: Exposure
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
Ca: Personal employee information mistakenly published at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Jeff Walters reports: CBC News has learned hundreds of employees at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre had their personal information published online by their workplace. At the end of March, 245 employees had personal information published on the hospital’s website, including their names, as well as their social insurance number (SIN) and other identifying…
You’re One Misconfiguration Away from a Cloud-Based Data Breach
Suresh Kasinathan writes: Not all instances of data exposure in the cloud are the product of malicious intentions from either internal or external actors. In its “2019 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR), for instance, Verizon Enterprise showed that errors constituted one of the top causes in the data breaches it examined. Verizon’s researchers attributed 21%…
Canadian passengers from virus-stricken Zaandam cruise ship hit by federal gov’t privacy breach
Sophia Harris reports: After enduring a cruise with a COVID-19 outbreak and four deaths, the 247 Canadian passengers who were aboard the Holland America Line ship, the MS Zaandam, face a new problem: a privacy breach by the federal government. […] In a detailed email Global Affairs Canada sent Canadian passengers during the Easter holiday…
Maropost takes your privacy and security….
I confess: some data leaks are not particularly interesting to me in terms of their sector or type of data leaked, but they become noteworthy because of the entity’s horrible, terrible, ridiculously bad incident response to attempted notification. Today we give you Maropost Inc. a marketing automation platform whose 10,000+ clients include New York Post, Shopify,…