Nico Grant reports: Adobe Inc. exposed the data of 7.5 million of its creative-software customers, a person familiar with the matter said, in the latest example of a company leaving consumer information visible on the internet. Adobe addressed the vulnerability the same day it was discovered, Oct. 19, said the person, who asked not to…
Category: Exposure
MY: Over 17,000 patients’ personal data exposed on national neurology registry website
The Star (in Malaysia) reports: In yet another data breach, more than 17,000 patients’ personal data have been exposed on the government-linked National Neurology Registry (NNeuR) website due to a scripting error, news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported. The portal reported that the data breach exposed among others NRIC numbers, phone numbers and addresses…
AU: Tech start-up apologizes to students after potential data breach
Bianka Farmakis reports: Online events promotions company Get has apologised for potentially exposing the names, phone numbers and email addresses of up to 50,000 Australian university students in a data breach. Read more on 9News.
UK: Warning issued in Home Group data threat
Gareth Cavanagh reports: Customers’ private details have potentially been compromised after a housing group suffered a data leak. Home Group, which has properties across the county, contacted some customers to warn them that their data was affected. Read more on Time and Star.
Leaky Autoclerk database exposes info on travelers, including military and gov’t personnel
Teri Robinson reports: A leak at Autoclerk, a reservations management system recently acquired by the Western Hotel & Resorts Group, exposed personal and travel information on hotel guests, including members of the U.S. government, military and Department of Homeland Security. […] Even after contacting the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) on Sept. 13…
Everything’s broken, Monday edition (medical data leaks)
It seems that every week I hear from researchers who find patient data or medical data exposed. And I know some of them spend inordinate amounts of time trying to contact entities to get them to secure their unsecured sensitive data. Some of these researchers do this for no pay and no expectation or hope…